... fraction lower, although they cannot be compared favourably with 1892. The infant mortality was at the rate of 180 deaths in 1,000 births. This is a decrease on last year, mortality, I'Bo per 1,000 of the population. Fifty-one cases of infectious disease ...

... been prepared, , a better water supply should lie provided. The birth-ime was 25*51 and the death-rate 16*01 per 1,000 infant mortality 151*16 per 1,000 births, zymotic death-rate 3*67 per 1,000. In reply advertisement for a surveyor to report on the main ...

... 109 females), or a rate of 81; deaths, 165 (83 males, female ), or rate of 19’37 zymotic disease rate, 2'42 ; rate of infant mortality to births per thousand, j deaths from T» ...

... previous year), and bronchitis, pneumonia, and pleurisy 33. For zymotic diseases the death-rate was 1 per thousand, and the infant mortality was 80 for the year. Rainfall was 7in. and Sin. above the average?a very important factor in a district which possessed ...

... of the Medical Officer of Health was read, which sta ed that the death rate for the year had been very high, owing to infant mortality and to diseases of the respiratory organs; congratulated the Local Board upon tbe efficient manner in which they had ...

... Saviour’, i. accounts tor this satisfactory feature Th«» f it. nutfe inhabitant. INFANT MORTALITY. f noticeable decrease in the deaths among in ants last year. The mortality infanta under v P r ,portion of 163 '5 deaths to 1,000 Slur’S- ci ,d The number ...

... decennial average. There were 18 deaths, equal to a rate of 14'02, against 16‘34 in 1893 and 17‘24, the decennial mean. Infant mortality was lower than ever before. There were six deaths from the principal zymotic di-eascs, giving zymotic rate of 0.87 per ...

... a death-rate of 16*8. Of the deaths 49 were children under 5 years of age (of these 37 were under 12 months), rate of infant mortality per 1,000 births of 103 - 06. Seventy were over 70, of these 28 exceeded 80 and one 90 years of age. Taking for the purposes ...

... ought not ruthlessly slaughtered, and practically a war of extermination carried on. borne idea of the alarming rate of infant mortality in certain districts of London, where poverty specially abounds, may be gathered from the fact that about 35 per cent ...

... “Nunc Dimittis.” What private enterprise has done England, national funds are doing in France. Owing to the high rate of infant mortality in France, 34 per cent., training schools for children’s nurses are to be established in connection with the Women’s ...

... year too high- While mors than onethird of the deaths are of persons of 65 and upwards, there is still excessive mortality amongst infants. The mothers of the little ones, says the doctor, can more towards pulling down the number deaths under one year ...

... day, orders for action, marked “very secret,” and many autograph letters. The severe weather is now being reflected in the mortality returns. Last week there were registered in London 1,763 deaths, the highest weekly total since the beginning of 1894. Nearly ...