... TERRIBLE INFANT MORTALITY. Young, Medical Officer for the borough of Stockport, in his annual report just submitted to the Town Council, points out that the infant mortality amounted to 197 per 1000 registered births. An appalling figure, implying as ...

... 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 ...

... TO CHECK EAST END INFANT MORTALITY. In order to check the alarming rate of infantile mortality in the End of London, the Public Health Committee of Stepney Borough Council reported in favour of appointing two lady health visitors for the borough. ...

... MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS. FRANCE'S FEARFUL INFANT DEATH-RATE. ITS CAUSE DISCLOSED. [To- Day's Standard Telegram.J Paris, Thursday Night. M. Gaston Leroux to-day publishes in the Matin an article on the infant mortality caused by bad and adulterated milk. ...

... Battersea Borough Council, London, has written to express her hearty approval of a system that so materially reduces the infant mortality. This is the first introduction of the system London^ ...

... the Medical Officer calls attention to the necessity for giving special attention to the insanitary conditions by which infant mortality is frequently increased. His recommendations will, no doubt, be taken into careful consideration by those in authority ...

... 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 ...

... for February last year, infant mortality the deaths under five years (103) constituted 38 per cent., and those under one year (65) 22 per cent, of the total mortality, the latter being equivalent an annual infantile mortality of 166 per 1000 births. There ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ; ...

... specially to direct their attention to the lessening of our infant mortality by instructing ignorant and careless mothers on the subject of infant hygiene, and especially the feading of infants. They are to report on the general sanitary state of the houses ...