... INFANT MORTALITY. Of the deaths for last year, 20 occurred ia infants under one year of age, being at the rite of 112 per 1000 of the birth rate. The rate for 1899 was 175 per 1,000 awl for 1898 135 per 1000. In the West Riding the average rate was 152 ...

... Infant Mortality. It would seem that children taken from the veldt are peculiarly susceptible to the attack infectious diseases which they have never known in their own homes; and when we look the official statistics published last week, and find that ...

... HOW REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY. rearing of children is attended with the least fatal revolts when pure medicine like Dr. Carr's Soot bene always available to fight each •moll, but sometimes aangerou*. illness. These is nothing to equal Sootbene for its gentle ...

... CORONER'S VIEW ON INFANT MORTALITY. Yesterday Mr. P. P. Maitland held an inquest at the body of Edith Simmons, the months old daughter of Edward Simmons, miner. The mother left the child large rocker whilst she went down the garden take some clothes from ...

... WHICH SHOULD REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY. Every mother who reads (he daily and has noticed the alarming number inquest* held upon children who have died in consequence of having teething medicines given them indiscriminately, a ill rejoice hear that at last ...

... DIE YOUNG! The increased infant mortality is a bid sign. For to a very large extent bv ignorance, carelessness, methods employed 111 rearing of yoiing^ The rate i« least ltt such curdy rural counties as Rutland, Hereiford, Westmorland, Wilt,, and first-named ...

... children, the nursing of the sick, cleanliness, and hygiene generally. It is hoped by this means to check the excessive infant mortality prevalent in the city. ...

... death-rate of the 33 large towns is duly noted in favour of Halifax, along with the fact that only three towns are lower in Infant Mortality. It is regrettable that on the other side of the ...

... regard to the savage attacks of German joaroale about infant mortality io the Concentralion camps in South Africa, it is interesting to compare statistics compiled by Dr. Moglich of infant mortality in German cities. According to this authority. the death-rate ...

... than in 1898, and I*4 less than in 1895, and were the rate 24.5 per 1,000. The death rate per 1,000 was 15.2, but the infant mortality was 120 per 1,000. 178 notifications of infeo..ious disease were received. There were five deaths from scarlet fever ...

... tl.v City i 1 the birth rat*, the numoer of births being 223 1878, and only last year, aprt® of the mown®® lation. The infant mortality was lees, also the death® of sixty ami upwards. In the period, tlie •'.•athraie had declined from 21.3 to 14 2 per annum ...

... of preventible infant mortality took place in the city. Last year there was a very bad outbreak of typhoid fever in the city, and there were 38 deaths from that disease during the whole twelve months as compared with 137 deaths of infants in one quarter ...