... INFANT MORTALITY IN CARDIFF. SUGGESTIONS BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER, In the course of his annual reporb the Cardiff Medical Officer makes some observations on infant mortality. The rate of infant mortality in ...

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... INFANT MORTALITY IN CARDIFF. NOT WORSE THAN OTHER TOWNS. The attention of the Cardiff Health Com- mittee being called to the question of the great infantile mortality in Cardiff western district, the Medical Officer stated at a meeting of that body on ...

... of 21,000. The average death rate is found to be 30.3 per 1,000, compared with 21.2 for the rest of the borough. The infant mortality reaches 239.2 per 1,000 births, as ajfainst 168,3 for the rest of the borough, and 150 in the large tgwnsofenitiand. ...

... The infant mortality in Cardiff, which had been 132 per 1,000 births in the first quarter of the year, declined to 129 per 1.000 last quarter, as compared with 123 in tbe correspond. lug period of last year; while in Swansea the infant mortality was 5 ...

... were half-starved. Such was his story of the domestic life he had experienced for the past 12 months. No wonder that infant mortality is so great in somo districts. ...

... —The council of the Social R-form Cnion met last evening under the presidency of Alderman R. Cory, when the question of infant mortality was brought forward by the Rpv. Gpo. S. After fully discussing the matter, it was decided to instruct the secre- tary ...

... mothers at times of vaccina- tion, &c.-The Rev. Mr Spurgeon pointed out that this bad been done because of the large infant mortality in the town and district. He therefore moved that the leaflets be distributed.— Councillor F. J. Bevan seconded.—The ...

... in his last annual report, where he states that the infant mortality is very excessive. (Right here is a chance for the concoctor of small jokes: he may put it in the form of a question—Can an infant be a collier 2 Whilst he is enjoying his own sharpness ...

... 6.678 births and 3,700 deaths. The deaths corresponded to an annual rate of 17'8 per 1,000 persons living. The rates of mortality in the several towns, arranged in order from the lowest, were as follow Preston 10-51 Sheffield 17-7 Croydon 11*5 Blackburn ...

... females, which amounts to a mortality of 16*59 per thousand of the estimated population. The natural increase in the population of the district during the year by excess of births over deaths was 2hQ. The number of infant deaths was 76, which is equal ...

... of females; they were equ.il to an annual mortality of 26 3 per 1,000, as compared with 21 3 during the same period in the large Eng- lish towns. Among the 82 deaths in Cardiff there were included 29 of infants under one year of age, and 11 of persons ...