... INFANT MORTALITY. The second case Vial in consequence of the, death of Florence Chapman, aged fifteen months, whose parents reside at 84, Durham-road, BMloamy. Ada Chapman, wife of a carman, said de- ceased, who was teething, had an abscess in the side ...

... 1900; * Infant Mortality.—The rate of this mortality or the proportion of deaths under one year of ago to every 1,000 births is 138, last year was 187.1. This is distinct improvement, which I hope will be maintained, and is the lowest infant death-rate ...

... Three deaths were uncertified. The infant mortality was twelve higher than tbs average rural infant mortality (or the County, but 27 less than the average for the county urban districts. The highest infant ...

... death rate was .18 per 1,000. The infant mortality was 74.7 per 1.000 births. The corresponding figures for rural England and Wales are follows:—Birth rate, l,OOO of the population; death rata, IS.Tper 1,000; infant mortality, 138 per 1,000 births. birth rate ...

... CAUSES OF CANCER. MEDICAL OFFICER'S REMARKABLE STATEMENT. Dr. Mackenzie, Officer for in his jnnnal report, «id the bijjh infant mortality was largely due to improper feeding and the administration qnack nostrums. Parents gave instead of milk, and largely ...

... and organic disease of the heart. generally following upon rheumatism. claim the first place as the cause of death. The infant mortality for the year conies out at 159.21, as against England aud Wales, 151; 33 great provincial towns, 165; rural England and ...

... 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 ...

... in a gallon of milk produced emaciation, and in one cass death. Mr. Scott Tebb suggests, morecver, that the increasing infant mortality in childeen of one or two years is due to milk treated with boracic acid. ...

... deaths had occurred m the Asylum, Wells, and the amended death rate is therefore 12.2. Zymotic death rate was 0.3, and the infant mortality 129.6 per 1000 births, deaths under the year being registered. As Highway Surveyor, Mr. Padfield reported that he had ...

... thousand against last year and the year previous. Of the total 209 deaths, were infants under one year and 60 over one and under five years of age, making the infant mortality 55 per cent, cf total deaths against last year, and 46 the year previous. During ...

... population ; the infant mortality rate was 62.5 per 1,000 births. The rates for previous years and the average for the past six years are ask follows : Average 1898. 1894-99. 2i 8 23'5 12'5 141 Birth rata Death rate Intact mortality rat* 74'0 934 The ...

... birth rate was 25.6, and the infant mortality 111 per 1,000 births. Comparing 'these figure* with the averages lor the last ten years, the death rate 1901 was 3.31 lower, the birth rate 2.07 higher, and the infant mortality 28 lower.—Mr. Phelps, -who remarked ...