... INFANT MORTALITY. ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Infant mortality was equal to a rate of 83 per 1,000 births, which is two points below the average of the ten preceding quarters. The highest infant mortality rate in the country was at Wigan, ...

... rate infant mortality in certain towns. Mr. Gerald Balfour, reply, promised that, through the Local Government Board officials and medical officers of health, he would endeavour to obtain information a» to the causes the high rates infant mortality, with ...

... the other three returning rates are amongst the lowest vet recorded. Infant mortality has never been lower than in 1927. except very slightly in 1923. and, while the important mortality of the fiisrt week was higher than in any other year since 1921. the ...

... Decline in Infant Mortality. Infant mortality, which has been declining rapidly in this as in other countries since the commencement of the century, fell further in 1920 to the rate of SO deaths per 1,000 births, the lowest previous corresponding rate ...

... LOW INFANT MORTALITY. The London death-rate is again 8.3 per thousand. Its average for the past four weeks has been 8.4 per thousand. The infant mortality remains at 40. These figures are extraordinary (writes the Times medical correspondent) for the ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN BERLIN. Copenhagen, Tuesday—The Kjeler says—lnfant mortality Berlin has decreased very considerably during the war The figures show the improvement this connection is general.—Reuter. ...

... EXTRAORDINARY INFANT MORTALITY. The Medical Officer of Health for Stockport (Dr. Young) gives some startling figures infant* mortality that town. fewer than 501 died during the year before they had lived twelve months. One does not wish be sensational ...

... that the infant mortality of Liverpool grace and reproach not only to the Coir to the whole of the health authorities The causes for the mortality were, vironment of the children, which imlu-J.-i curse of women drinking: secondly, th- . ignorance of mothers ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN BELFAST. BABY CLUBS' WORK COMMENDED. The Belfast city coroner held an inquest in the Templemore•avenue Baths on the body of a child named Ethel Iluddock, aged five months, whose parents reside at 28. Flora•street, Belfast. Mrs. Ruddock ...

... TERRIBLE INFANT MORTALITY IN RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg oorreepondeiit the Timee” depicts eery alarming state ol thing* with regard to infant mortality in Rnseia. It appear*, be say*, that in many of til* OoTernmerit* the proportion of the children who ...

... MILK AND THE ALARMING INFANT MORTALITY. Our alarming infant mortality was discussed in the State section of the British Medical Association at Leicester yesterday. Bailie Anderson, Glasgow, showed that England’s infant death rate was 163 per ...