... INFANT MORTALITY IN CHESHIRE REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER. c — The report of the medical officer of health for heshire has just been Alluding to the high rate of infant m ity, Dr. Vacher says, there is no doubt that most of this mortality is preventable ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN CHESHIRE. REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER. C J The report of the medical officer of health, for + eshire has just been ublished. Alluding ‘te th high rate of infant morta ity, Dr. Vecher says, there 18 ho doubt that most of this mortality ...

... employment of mother* in factories just before and 100 soon after confine ment. are also mentioned as questions which beara* infant mortality. ...

... prejudicial to tha iivw of infants; these include want of cleanliness in the home, and the proper attention on the part of mothers to the food and clothing of their infants. Mention made the great ignorance in respect of infant feeding which is shown the ...

... should be supplied with •mall pamphlet guide to infant dieting (bear, hear). hoped the nodical profession would senst him carrying that scheme into effieet. If they aeuld reduce tho sum infant mortality they would red the general death rate very materially ...

... give an annual death-rate of 16 1-3 per thousand of the population, 331 for the corresponding period of last year. The infant mortality is 42 per cent, of the total deaths, and the birth-rate :s 32 per thousand of the population. or about double the death-rate ...

... is mainly responsible for our deplorable infant mortality. Dr. Niven is well aware that this is a gross libel on the dairymen‘of the district, for he knows that the true cause of our ex- cessive infant mortality is due to the lives lived by the parents ...

... population as against lii kMi'ikiiiieillei i 1 of year. Of the tetal dealhe were ohildraa under five years of age, giving an infant mortality per oent. The registered were 108, and this gave a birth-rate of 27 per thousand of the population. During the quarter ...

... total 170 deaths 79 are children under five years of age (32 cl them under one giving an infant mortality 46i pep cent, total deaths. Last year the infant mortality was 42 per cent. The deaths from measles have caused the difference. During the five weeks ...

... Healb and the Coaness upuold the labourer's ri:mg aod see that be gets & fair day's wage for a fair ny'a-i.udtb-:,'inmpm infant mortality, and net tall then, il they want a little information on the sabject let them nn{] to the banksmen's wives.—Yours, &0 ...

... ie toe toe A. & — morrow fromm Bostoo ex are due te AFRICAN OOAST, fe Post for Seepeboh per on THE HEALTH OF CHESHIRE. INFANT MORTALITY IN THE OOUN Dr. Vaeber, medical offeer of health for county of Chester, has imced his report for the past veer Tt states ...

... year was rats of infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths of infants under one year in tie total number of births is equal to 2093 per thommod. The rats for the previous year was 130.3 per thousand. The rate of infant mortality ...