... piece of work in hand Home Office. His attention has been caiicd several public medical officers health to the excessive infant mortality in certain industrial towns where the women are largely engaged factory work. Dr. Itßio, the County Medical Officer for ...

... attended to it would reduce our infant mortality considerably. Deaths from consumption in excess of 1892. There were only nine fatal cases in 1891, in 1892, and 23 last year. rate of I*9 per 1,000. order rednce this mortality adhered his former opinion that ...

... grandmother, perhaps, could not very well do with so many children. Some notice, he said, ought to be taken of such cases. Infant mortality in that district had during the last few weeks been serious, and between twelve and a score of cases had come under his ...

... of the elector* as well as the Local Board. Two facts stand out with vivid realism. First that our rate mortality, and especially of infant mortality, is much higher than ought to be. The statement that 21-0 per 1,000 oi the deaths m the South Ward are ...

... incident of the meetings of the Sanitary Institute was Dr Reid's statement as the infant mortality in oar artisan centres. His conclusion was that nearly three thousand infants died in Staffordshire during the last ten yearn who ought not to have died at ...

... THE HEALTH BLYTH. HEAVY INFANTILE MORTALITY. John Cromie, the medical officer of the South Blyth and Newsham Local Board, attended tho special meeting of the authority Wednesday evening, and presented his annual report may state that the population of ...

... of the adjoining , this mortality cannot by* any means : considered excessive. The report recon a substantial augumenution of popul tion dunng the year, the number births being 4-69 natural increase of The infantile mortality has, unfortunately, gone ...

... b:rth rate of 33'7 per There were deaths infants uader one the number ef births, they are equal deaths under one year to a thousand births. Or, stated in another way, they form 20*6 per cent, the total mortality. There is a decrease the death-rate of the ...

... its first presentation, and it has repeated the enchantment every repetition. Professionals have wondered, and ordii-iry mortals ' raved.' Scholars have analysed it,only to marvel its intricate ingenuitv, and critics agree that its writer is 'magician ...

... Cowpen authority ought to acknowledged. But. as Lee hinted, while there room for congratulation 011 the low mortality, the preponderance of infants' deaths called for explanation. And it came, marriages and lack of experience on the part young mothers, aie ...

... friend on hearing of the event had called personally to inquire if the infant had come into the world with a pair of gold spectacles attached to its face. Mr Hoffman was nervous mortal, prone to excitement, gesticulation, and bad English ; for though it ...