... INFANT MORTALITY AT CARDIFF I The attention of the Cardiff Health Com- mittee being called to the question of the great infantde mortality in Cardiff western district, the Medical Officer stated at a meeting of that body on Tuesday thab the infantile ...

... 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 ...

... children were registered in the union and only 121 were ruccessfully vaccinated. The chairman commen'ed on the large rat infant mortality in the death of 211 children.—The salary of Mr. Snooks, workhouse porter, was, after some opposition, raised from £26 ...

... HIGH MORTALITY AMONG LONDON JEW the many social virtues of the Jewish race, there is an exceptionally rate of the death-rate among their Population of the whale country is 23 per cent the Jews i over @ but the infant mortality 1s over cent. Among the ...

... medical officer to the council, in his ordinary report stated that fiftyeight cases of infant deaths had recently occurred in the parish from diarrlur a. '1 La infant mortality of the parish was of the total deaths during the past two months. Dr. Stocker, one ...

... children continually going on. It is my duty to point out, he say*, the terribly high rate of infant mortality. In Bow the number of deaths of infante under one year was, in 1895, 179; in Poplar, 190; Bromley, 184; Bhoreditch. 199; Limehouse, 2 .2 ...

... 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 , ...

... 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 against 168 3 for the rest of the borough, anel 150 in the large towns of England ...

... then Home Becretary, for the purpose of calling attention to the excessive mortality of infants, a subject that has repeatedly been pointed out. The cause of the excessive mortality was said to be the employment of women in factories, which, no doubt, is ...

... LOCKINGTON. A PHENOMENAL DEATH RATE.—Putting aside a slight infant mortality, the entire population of Lockington, some 500 in number, who saw the beginning of last year also saw its close, with four exceptions, and of these all but one had passed the ...

... question of little children sleeping with their parents, and he highly condemns the practice. Certain it is that the infant mortality returns are far from satisfactory, and many children who ought to be alive and well to-day have been suffocated. One ...