... INFANT MORTALITY IN FRANCE Starthing figures in regard to the fantile mortality of France have just bewn published. Of every 1,000 children under the age of one year 251 die at Rouen, 204 at Lille, 342 at Dunkirk, 414 at Mars-en- Bazoeuf, 507 at Halluin ...

... MR BURNS AND INFANT MORTALITY Mr. John Burns, presiding at the English?hng Conference on Infant Mortality at estminster, to-day, said the source of our strength lay in a noble motherbood. Having concentrated on the child, they should mot Jose sight of ...

... INFANTILE MORTALITY, During the year there died 193 infants under one vear of age, against 149 during the previous year, which gives an infant mortality of 103 deaths per 1,000 births. This is considerably above the previous year, but below that of 1911 ...

... has, from a public point of view, been very satisfactory, there being a low incidence of infectious disease and a low infant mortality rate. At the end of the year, he points out, it was decided tg improve the ante-natal and masernity and child welfare ...

... corresponds to an infam mortality of 81 deaths per 1.(& birthe, against 123 for the previous year. This is the lowest irdantile death-rate that has ever been recorded in the boroagh. Fast Ward ...

... 700. The number of bubies sbandouned in 1904 was 5,200. For the ycar that has just passed the number was oumly 3,350. Infant mortality, however, countinucs high. ...

... marriages, and only 87 houses had been built Where had all the people gone? Then there was the infant mortality. In‘l’.«t. North and Central Wards the infant mortality was enormous, and unless the- improved or abolished same of the abominable alleys, streets ...

... reference to the ‘‘ Cause of Death table later in the report. During the year 10 infants under the age of ong vear died (4 less than in 1931, giving an infant mortality rate of 39.2 per f,'ooo live births. This figure is liable to comsiderable fluctuation ...

... fever (1), nq:hmm (4), influenza (2), phthisis (6), bronchitis (3), gnnnonn ), cance- (6), organic heart disease (6), and infant mortality (1). In the lest-mentioned case there is a big drop below the average, which for the previous five years was six. HOUSING ...

... lowest recorded in the distriot sinoe 1909, and which compares favourably with 13.7, the rate for England and Wales. The infant mortality rate was 102.94 per 1,000 births, which is higher than that of the preceding b[vear, and ought, Dr. Denming says, to ...

... as he remembered there had been only two deaths there in the last ten years, and there had been no infant mortality. If there has been no infant mortality in the last ten years would you consider that an indication in fdvour of the houses?—Yes. Mr. Garratt: ...

... , as is wel! known, a potent factor in the dissemination of a number of serious diseases, and has great influence on infant mortality. Since the inception of the National League for Physical Eduncation and lmmflnem in 1905, the question of pure milk occupied ...