... Infant Mortality Kirkcaldy.—ln his annual report on the health of Kirkcaldy, Mackay, the medical officer health, calls attention to the fact that many infants under one year of age died in the burgh adults between the ages of 30 GO. ...

... CHESHIRE MEDICAL OFFICER AND INFANT MORTALITY. The report of the Medical Officer of Health for Cheshire has just been published. Alluding to high rate of infant mortality, Dr Vacher says there is no doubt that most of this mortality is ...

... question, and that it suggested to him that the earlier eloeing of publichouses would materially lessen this appalling infant mortality. The matter was remitted committee for investigation. ...

... ced INFANT MORTALITY IN KIRK CALDY. Dr J. Sutherland Macka y, the Medical Othicer of Health for Kirkealdy in his annual report on nd extended burgh, thus the healih of the burgh concludes :— It is a fact worthy of the gravest consideration of the that ...

... were deaths of people over 60 years of age. Seventy-eight were over 60, out of a total of 163, or 4727 per cent. The infant mortality , has been steadily decreasing, but it is still too high for a rural population. During the year 48 deaths occurred in ...

... of the ProvincQ ^ bf Quebec , tho superabundanco of childraB renders parents . less carotid about thea ^ and the heavy infant mortality is d ^ 8 to want of care rather than to wiy constitutional debility . In 'fact , says Mr Davidson , Malfchus would , ...

... drous results, as the bill' of mortality for the young th e w. An intelligent ree.jing of this work by al/ to whom the care of .liddren is entrusted, would beyond question materially reduce that terrible infant mortality which is animaally put on record ...

... per cent. of the whole mortality, and per 1000 living at that age; and 247 deaths in persons between these extremes of age, or 391 per cent. of the whole mortality, but only 9°2 per 1000 li ng at As there were 127 deaths in infants under one year of age ...

... There was large tnrnont, npwardc of 90 being present. The lecture was thorough practical one, and in view of the great infant mortality in this district mrinly due improper feeding, too much Importance cannot be attached to this subject. Mr Budge, who has ...

... and evidence collected by experts, chat where married women were largely employed in factories, in the first place, the infant mortality was very much higher; and, in the second place, they might indirectly conclude that a stunted and enfeebled race succeeded ...

... births, apd deaths, giving birthrate of 24-1) per 1000, and a death-rate of 18-3 per 1000 of the population. The rate of infant mortality was 01 8 per IUUO registered births. Tho death-rate is slightly higher than during the two years, and the birth-rate ...

... chief causes of infant mortality alludes to under the following beads:— 1, Premature birth : 2, hereditary weakness; 3. insanitary surroundings ; improper feediogand defective nursing; 5, defective clothing and exposure to cold, and 6, infant life insurancewhich ...