... INFANT MORTALITY. Deaths ol infuJits under one year of age ; numbered 1.885. oi 73 per 1,000 births ' .recistered, as compared with 68 per 1,000 in 1930. , The deaths infants under 1 year of age include 1.067 of males and 818 of females, the former number ...

... INFANT MORTALITY LOWEST RECORDED. BIRTH-RATE DROPS AGAIN. The lowest infant mortality rate ever recorded is shown in provisional figures for the year 1935, issued by the General Register Office for England and Wales. There was another decrease in the ...

... INFANT MORTALITY RETURN CRITICISM OF POOR LAW MINORITY REPORT Local Government B««*rd has issued a return concerning the morUtlity infants horn in Poor Law institutions, which, the Miuority Report of the Poor Low Commission asserted, is between two and ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT CAPE. A native doctor, giving evidence to the Native Economic Commission in Capetown on Friday, said that 60 per cent. of native new-born children died before reaching the age of two years. ...

... DECREAS INFANT MORTALITY According to the Registrar-General’s quar- terly return for the three months ended which has just been December 31, 1930, published. the numbers of births, deaths, and marriages registered in Ulster show an increase on the number ...

... per thousand, and in the 136 emaller towns 15 per Of the deaths in England and Wales, 44,818 were of infants uader one ye.r of age, the infsot mortality rate being 2)1 per thousand registered births, the proportion being €0 per thousand sbove the average ...

... 10 or 11 per thousand of to-dav. The infant mortality was ternble. London during this period the mortality amongst children under two years of age was no less than 45 per cent, of the total deaths. This mortality was chieHy due to epidemic diarrhoea in ...

... was successful in being nominated as D. President of the Union for the year 1947 INFANT MORTALITY LOW FIGURES. The Registrar General announces that 194b the infant mortality rate in Northern Ireland was the lowest ever experienced. The figqre is deaths ...

... sexes asserte itself. Infant mortality is very high owing to the ignorance and inexperience of the women. Since celibacy is a dis- grace, girls sre often married a6 young as ten or twelve. In order to reduce the rate of infant mortality some men have suggested ...

... INFANT HOBTALITT. An improvement in the infant mortality rate waa revealed for the year notwithstanding the warm dry summer. A fall in the rate waa also noticeable the other parts of the British Isles. The rate of per 1.000 births registered for Northern ...

... three months of the year are a trying time for the young and the aged. The annual jump in the statistics relating to infant mortality .measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria, pneumonia and influenza, is particularly piarked. j ...

... Twenty years sgo 75 p.c. the .births were vaccinated, while to-day there wore only The decrease in infant mortality was largely due to the establishment o infant welfare centres, of which there were 1,953 in the country. increasing number-of voluntary hospitals ...