... old age mortality is much higher than it has been fur many years. Among infants under one, 19 deaths occurred, being at the rate of 97 per thousand births registered. This compares favourably with the previous year, when the infant mortality was 120 per ...

... of leaving their babies in the care of young children, and the result is that Acton has a higher average rate of infant mortality than soy town in the county. The proposal is one of tbe provisions of the Acton Improvement, which came before a Select Committee ...

... the heaviest mortality has been from diseases of the lungs sod heart, and from cancer. Sixteen from the disease of the ?urge, sir of which were from phthisie, nine Jying from diseases of the heart, and four from cancer. The infant mortality is a low one ...

... should expect to find (1) a high mortality from infectious disease. From this cause there was only one case last year, viz., measles which is non-notifiable ; (2)a high infantile mortality. Again, the infantile mortality is less in Rathin than in any part ...