... experiment has prove. i o successful, that many corporations throughout 'he country will endeavour to reduce the heavy infant mortality rotes by similar means. -. .- . It may be well to point out, too, that the St. Helens Corporation take, tbe additional ...

... finished killing infant mortality with statistics, they should “‘buck up” and do something. (Hear, hear, and laughter,) Dr. Buchan did not think that insanitation was the causa causans of infantile martality, If they could have all the infants breast-fexd ...

... be of importance to those who take an interest in death statistics and rites of mortality. Tlie rate of mortality varies with age. In the first year of life the mortality is, for the most part, very high, gradually declining until the period of middle ...

... the children we would hear less of infant mortality. He is here knocking down his own bogey. There i 8 no question about it but that pure milk is the best possible food, and almost the only suitable food, for infants. But unfortunately milk is one of those ...

... acnd other daia which Mr Story has go ekilfully worked into his report. For instance it is satisfeelory to find that infant mortality in the Island ig largely on the deercass, and that pulmenary consumpiion—that one time govurge of the Island —and {febrile ...

... known as “Pleasant are ThY A recent Public Health Comgress, when the subject | 200ve.” sung by the auditnce fto the of infant mortality was under discussion, great | Maidstone.” The band, under the con irportance was attached to the subject of the §?D ...

... above the number registered in the preceding year, 1903. The following paragraph culled from the report, with regard to infant mortality, does mnot afford pleasant reading:—“ll regrat to have to record an increase. In 1903 the deatis under 1 year wers 79 ...

... LONDON The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality in the 76 great towms of England and Wales last week averaged 20.4 per 1,000. The report mentions that the death of an infant from Finsbury, in Great Ormond St. Ohildren’s- Hospital, London ...

... steamer Forcados, which was reported ashore, got off undamaged. . ' The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality in seventy-six great towns of England and Wales, last week, averages 11-7 per 1,000. ’ \ The funeral of the Dowager Lady ...

... year, 1904. Infant Mortality.—ln 1903 the deaths under ome year were 79 males and 65 females—total, 144, an increase over 1902 of 25. This mortality further rose to 85 males and 69 females—total, 154—in 1904. In 1905 the deaths of infants under one year ...

... nominations nave been fixed for the 12th, and polling for the 16th inst. The Registrar-General meports the annual rate of mortality in 76 great towns of England and Wales last week averaged 90.8 per 1,000. Exchequer returns, from April Ist to February Z2nd: ...

... significant things, viz:— (1) that stronger infants are bora; and (2) that more infants ave fed and reared in rural istricts than in populous centres. We are apt to divide the causes for the lamentable death-roll of infants into avoidable and unayoidable, but ...