... INFANT MORTALITY EGYPT. TERRIBLE TALE OF DESTRUCTION. One of the most distressing features of he native life in Egypt is the great infant .Hutnbty. Host of us knew, says the Tall uall Gazette's Cairo correspondent, that it vas fairly high, but scarcely ...

... Health for the Barnstaple Rural District, has presented his annual report to the Council. ohtiwed t.!vit the death-rate, infant mortality death-rate, and the death-rate zymotic diseases were the lowest ever recorded for distiiot, and compared most favourably ...

... town. The infant mortality for the year 86.95 per 1,000 births registered. This is the lowest infant mortality death-rate ever recorded for the borough. In 1891 it was 99.74. and in 1902 the highest iit has ever been, 181.26. The infant ...

... children under 12 years old, yielding the low infant mortality of 62,2 per 1,000. Deducting fiy due to premature birth where children had reasonable chance surviving, the rate was 43 per 1,000. The infant mortality for last year was 81.3 per 1,000, and the ...

... Barnstaple, read an instructive paper on Infant Mortality and its Prevention. The causes of infant mortality put down to the employment married women, maternal ignorance, general principles of the Tearing of infants, defective housing, ...

... ot Sir Robert Newman. Bart., and there was* representative attendance. Papers were read by Dr. Harper; (Barnstaple) Infant Mortality and its Prevention,' and by Lady St. Aldwyn on District Nursing. . . , Lady Fortescue, moving the annual report said ...

... birthrate of 21.9 wae better than the average or the four preceding years. natural the population (excess of births over 46. Infant mortality was five, Tne crease proportion children born s* in the number reared per the popnlalation was highly creditable the ...

... , their general infantile rates being much below average. The higher rate infant mortality in the Crediton district was owing to the fact that out a total six deaths of infants, four were due premature birth. The number of cases notified under the N ...

... THE HEALTH OF DEVONSHIRE. COUNTY MEDICALOFFICE R'S R PORT. INFANT MORTALITY ST. THOMAS. Particular interest rs to the first published annual report the County Medical-officer of Hon for Devonshire (Dr. George Adkius) for t'-ie year 1908. The volume, ...

... birth-rate of 21.5, as ompared with 26.5 for England and Wales; nd 108 deaths, which gave a rate of 11.6, gainst 14.7. The infant mortality was low, 80 per I,OCO births, compared with 121 England and Wales. A cause of this low rate was* the cool summer, combined ...

... yeaTS old. He attributed the mortali'v in infants to the employment of married women, maternal ignorance in infant feed ing and management. He urged the importance educating mothers in tin matter of rearing infants, .both literatim and through such Associations ...

... population, and the report does not supply with the percentage of death-rate, except for last year, when it was .71. The infant mortality the district is low. ...