... INFANT MORTALITY IN CAPE COLONY. STARTLING FIGURES. Mr Chamberlain asked for statistics regarding child mortality in Cape Colony, and a memorandum on the subject was prepared by Dr Gregory, Medical Officer of Health for Cape Colony. Among other things ...

... in the last four years 2 were over ninety, over eighty, 6 over seventy, 3 over sixty-five, and only 9 under that age. Infant mortality almost unknown, only 2 deaths being registered that time. ...

... Normandy, where alcoholism has seized the people with truly «larmmg intensity, the number of stillborn children and cases of infant mortality has increased per cent.; the number refused on the ground health has trebled ; marriages have diminished one-eighth ; ...

... Clay buildings—no fireplaces—furnished with dirty skins for bedding. and over-run with pigs and poultry. No wonder the infant mortality is high. Mr Cameron. who has made some interesting experiments in rifle practice when in Africa. was good enough to ...

... the concentration camps. The statistics published to-day of the infant mortality in Cape Colony must also receive careful consideration in connection with the question of child mortality in the camps. The figures relating to the death - rate of European ...

... (population 1506) numbered 35 (14 males and 21 females). The proportion of 17 for ages over 70 years and the creepthouliy low infant mortality proves the district to be a healthy one. I.O.G.T.—There was a crowded attendance at the weekly meeting of the Birks ...

... and the mew aity that compels them to abandon their children in to neck in the field.. are bleated for the alarming infant mortality mme parte of which reached 40 and even 50 per Mg. The Corporation of Glasgow has accepted the gift by an anonymous donor ...

... Clay buildings —no fireplaces—furnished with dirty skins for bedding, and over-run with pigs and poultry. No wonder the infant mortality is high. BRITISH AND 11Qt11 Mr Cameron, who has. made some interesting experiments in rifle practice when in Africa ...

... 15061 numbered 35 (14 males and 21 femal. 7Le repertion of 17 for •ges over 70 yeah of sea, and the easterlies.- ally low infant mortality prism Yr district to be a healthy one. AND DANT. AT Yrinsue, 11r and Mrs Clark gave the 'errant., tenants, crofters, ...

... LEVEN. Registrar's Returns.—A heavy mortality among infants is tlie outstanding feature in the 1901 returns, out of 107 being children under 18 months. There were births and marriages, and the previous year the figures were 190 births, marriages, and ...

... the events which we are told are occurring France, and much that see going on before our eyes in this country, the sickly infants, the puny children, the stunted men and women, the feeble intellects, the morbid nervous systems which occur among the offspring ...

... giving an annual mortality rate of 201 per thousand of estimated population. Thin rate in O'S below that for the corresponding week of last year, and also 0 . 5 below that for the previous week of the present year. The lowest rate of mortality wee retarded ...