... times the number of deaths; this is multiplying at motor-speed.” There had been no deaths from infectious diseasea and infant mortality was comparatively low, only two of the intal deaths being of persons under 12 months. Scari¥®fever had been notified ...

... it about the waste of infant life. On the contrary, the report stated that infantile mortality in the county had fallen during the year under report from to 133 per 1,000. Compared with the excessive mortality amongst the infants of this county, this rate ...

... that the subject of infant mortality would claim its attention probably more than anything else, for the decline of the population came not so much from d**crcaao in the number of births from the terribly high rato of infant mortality in Franco. PROPOSED ...

... 000, tbs symoiio death rate 1.1 per 1,000, while the infant mortality was 150 per 1.000 births. The corresponding rates for England and Wales being birth rate, 28.5; death rate, 16 0; infant mortality, 161. He considered the figures were satisfactory, the ...

... literature on the smi;ect. Aid. Stanton said that an exhaust.ve inquiry into the causes of infant mortality in War bad not succeeded in tracing a single case to infant insurance. The deaths were due to maternal ignorance. Mr. Morgan said he should not like ...

... houses (one being occupicd by 11 persons) and 980 two-roomed houses (two of them having 12 or more people). 1900 the infant mortality was one every five born. —The Mayor could hardly believo there one case in Durham where seven or eight people Hved in ...

... origin of the disease. The birth-rate for the year for Skipton had been 24.7, the death-rate 17.8, zymotic rate 1.9. and infant mortality 131.3 per thousand. The birth-rate was the lowest on record.—The Council decided to issue posters advising the public ...

... 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. ...

... were no cases of plague. INFANT MORTALITY. The deaths of children under five years of age numbered 1215. The number of children in the first year of life who died was 844, which is equivalent to 24.6 per cent, of the total mortality, and, calculated on the ...

... District, with population of 7,271, has persons per acre, a birth-rate per 1,000 of 37 2, a general mortality per 1,000 of population of 12-2, and an infant mortality of 96 per 1,000. The number of births was 198; and the number of deaths 89, 31 of which were ...

... births and 182 deaths, with birth raJte of 22.8 and death rate of 13.8. The deat rate from the chief was to .58, and the infant mortality to 86.fi. Eighty two casee of infectious disease had been notified during the year. CHRISTMAS DAY IN A BRITISH ...

... there has been a considerable mortality among infants, a fact which has led the medical officers of health in several towns to issu! hints to mothers on the management of children. The bearing of drink upon infant mortality. and also upon the health of ...