... fhe honks. Although commenced so late Local G I in the season the effeae on the infant mortality referee, arid diarrh.e % rate has been marked, The year wi infant mortality rate for St. Rlelen's in 1899 'Turner Wals 157 per 1,000 births, against a m ean ...

... .org ,pis, INFANT MOaTALITY. bet be The General Purposes Committee reported, Ber are in reference to defects in District Council on administration, that several medical officers sul hed attributed the large increase in infant 'Om mortality in their districts ...

... iwho neglected to sen1 their children to school, kept them unclean. &c. Dr. Hopne, of Liverpcol, opened a discuss or on Infant Mortality. He advocated reaular cieazn.ng good bouse accommodation, the employment of fpmi.je m:pectors. and the provisiou of ...

... birth rate of 25 44; a lower rate than in the last three years. No deaths were due to zymotic diseases, Theo rate of j infant mortality was 60 6. Seventeen persons died aged 65 years, the united average belng 76 years. ?? caused 4 deaths, bronchitls, pneumonia ...

... would have come far short of what they had'done. (Applause.) Rev. George Walker, East Parish, seconded the mot-ion. The infant mortality in the east end. ! amounting, he believed, to oneEfoureh. or at any- rate one-fifth, of the population, was largely due ...

... to Cardiff, a-nd 1 to Leeds. Infant mortality in England and Wales last quarter was equal to 148 per 1,M00 births registered, and slightly exceeded the average. In the thirty-three large towns the rate of infant mortality averaged 152 per 1,000, and ranged ...

... of London. Despito this fact, the birth- rate w.-as higher and the death-rate lower than the Zondon average, while tie infant mortality was 40.2 lbelow that int the MNetropolis generally. Such figures 'ear eloquent testimony to the eonditions under Which ...

... the increase being due almost entirely to an excess of deaths from whooping coogh.- Huddersfeid had the lowest rate of infant mortality of all the large towns, fand ranged from 152 in Huddersfield, 139 in Halifax. 171 in Leeds, 181 in Bradford, and 194- ...

... or over the ago of forty-five, and the tdeath-rate of infants under one yvar worked out at tSl1.1 per 1,000 white, atud 912.7 per q1.00 Oolouredt Dr. Stoney attributes the high infant mortality to the lac3 of milk, the tnatural food of very young children ...

... trenches, and the wvomen were either down colony or in the women's laager. For the first few months of the siege the rate of infant mortality and deaths among aged people were terribly high. It was a case of the survival ofthe fittest. Several thousand falsehoods ...

... us as and under sixty-five years, 233; sixty-five and co upwards. 117. With regard to the unusually dei high rate of infant mortality, Dr. Walford qc is ?? proportion of deaths under one th r. year of age to registered births was equal to pe s. 176 pgsa'1 ...

... 15-4, and Sutton Coldfield 12-18. while for the whole of England it was 1;8'S. The position reached in 1828 as regards infant mortality had not been maintained, and the district had relapsed-into its old and, in tji respect unsatisfactory condition. The ...