... HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY CHESHIRE. Last night, in his annual reoort to the s Urban Council. Dr. Gough, medical ffic that out of 560 children born during the died before reaching one year. Thirty-five K o>> all the Northwich deaths were infants year. ...

... Mortality the Camps. The Colonial Secrcibarr’s positive assurance in the House of Commons that the infant mortality in the towns of (’ape Colony, giving an average of 214 in the 1.000, was very much larger than anything in this country has ‘laid himself ...

... year old.” The “infant mortality rate was thus 77 per 1,000 births. The -average rate in the preceding ten years was 109, and the rate in rural” England and Wales in 1901 was 138 per 1,000. The birth-rate,death-rete, and infant mortality rate in each district ...

... THE “FAIR CONTRACTS CLAUSE” IN “FAIR” TRADE AND INFANT MORTALITY. At a meeting the Preston Trades Council, on Wednewfcy. Mr. H. Roark presiding, a motion was proposed by the Amalgamated Railway Servants Delegate, seconded by the Tailors’ Delegate, that ...

... European children arc quite Illusory, and also makes it clear the* in the light of the infant mortality among the Boers in times peace the rate of infant mortality in the refugee camps sery far from surprising. Turning the general question of the morality ...

... the death-rate lft-20. The zymotic deathrate returned at 088 ; respiratory deathrate Ml ; puthists death-rate IT3 ; infant mortality rate per I.OOJ births. Ibe births numbered 277, males, 117 females, and tbe deaths numbered 146. The death-rate is moderate ...

... previous year. to the infant mortality, the death© of infants under one year were 61 in number, as against in the previous year, and were equal to 104 per thousand registered births, which is about the average rate of infant mortality in the ...

... rate was 20.6 per thousand for the year. Death from the seven principal zymotic diseases were equal to 1.3 per 1,000. Infant mortality was 155 per thousand of the living under one year. He drew attention to the carelessness of parents regarding patients ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... and greatly in mortality for England and Wales, wh 1.000 births.” He adds—“lf mother trained in hygienic knowledge and the of infants, and if the sanitary oonditior and their surroundings were better, the greatly decreased infant mortality.” It ought be ...

... the infant mortality rate wu 68 . 8 per 1000 births. These rates should be compared with the average rates for rural England and Wales for 1901. Hambleden Rural District, 1894-1898, average:— Birth rate, 24 . 5; death rate, 127; Infant mortality, 105 ...