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Infant Mortality

... Infant Mortality The great Summer mortality of Infants is largely due to epidemic diarrhcea. This can be avoided. Scrupulous cleanliness of all utensils used is imperative, but this alone will not avail if the milk or food be exposed to the contamination ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1907
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 165 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

VITAL STATISTICY

... birth-rate 233 per 1,000 of the population. The deaths number 55 making the death-rate 139 per 1,000 population. The infant mortality : 86.9 per 1,000 births. Comparing the death.rate for the last three years we have :—For 1897, 18.4; 1898, 14:7; 1899 ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1900
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE FLOODS

... to this district, gives us 54 death&—lgj per 1,000 population. There were six deaths under 1 year of age, making the infant mortality 68.9 per 1,000 births registered. I am, Gentlemen, ¥ Yours obediently. ~ RorT. McLaAY, M.D. M.O.H. Horncastle Urban District ...

Published: Saturday 01 March 1902
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HEALTH

... the workhouse, eaving out that of an infant aged-14 days, the average age was T 4 years. Seven deaths were registered under one year, which is equal to an infant mortality of 106.1 per 1,000 births. The infant mortality for the last five ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1906
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 722 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF FEATHERSTONE

... births registered in 190 thaw in 15%. Measured by the Dproportion of deaths under one year to 1.000 Tegistered births the infant mortality was 22; 1899, 178; average for last ten years 179; England and Walea, 1900, 164. I lament sach an excessive child death-rate ...

SANITARY COMMITTEE'S DOINGS

... arranging improvewents in the system of irrigation ; (3) 'l'nat the portion of the Medicsl Officer’s report relating to the infant mortality, the absence of infectious disease, and the general condition of the district, was most satistactory ; (4) That the Clerk ...

Published: Saturday 17 February 1900
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 427 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HEALTH OF HORNCASTLE,

... which is equal to a death-rate of 21.6 per 1,000 inhabitants. Fourteen deaths were registered under one vear, giving an infant mortality of 194.4 per 1,000 births registered. The birth-rate was 18 per 1,000 inhabitants. These statistics are decidedly un ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1904
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1184 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HOW INFANTS’ FOOD IS MADE

... HOW INFANTS’ FOOD IS MADE. Much public attention has lately been directed to the seriousness of infant mortality in this country. It is agreed that this mortality is largely due to improper feedinfi. And since many mothers, eeflecially when they are also ...

Published: Saturday 04 August 1906
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SANITARY MATTERS

... amounts to 15.78, while the year before (1899) last it was 25.16, so the average for the two years is about 20 per ann. The infant mortality comes out badly, though, as I said in previous reports, the figures are far too small to be of any value, but 166.6 is ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1901
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 872 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

acute

... just published, he has something to say about the decline of the birth-rate. But as great, or greater, an evil as thisis infant mortality, and Huddersfield and its ex-Mayor have set an example to the country in the interesting experiments which have heen ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1906
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1069 | Page: 6 | Tags: none