... vear of life who died dunng the year was 8 M , which was equivalent to 24 . 6 per cent . of the total mortality . The remedy for this high infant mortality lay in the prevention of those general insanitary coccitioas which . still abounded in certain . disAricts ...

... his annual report to the Local Government Board ,, makes special mention of the infantile mortality in the burgh laet year . Ho states : —The infantile mortality rate or ' number of deaths under one year of age per 1000 births was 224 . 6 ono of the ' ...

... for the same monili during the ten previous yen's . A comparison of the deaths registered shows that during February iha mortality was at the rate oi 21 . 5 deaths per 1003 persons in Paisley ; 21 . 9 in Aberdeen , 22 . 0 in Perth , 22 . 6 in Edinburgh ...