... Dealing with infant mortality, the Medical Officer states that the rate was lower tau it; 1911, but in certain districts, notably the Brecon urban and Crickhowell rural districts, the rate was considerably higher. The infant mortality rate in the urban ...

... the health of the county during the past year was on the whole satisfactory, but he draws particular attention to the infant mortality rate and the housing conditions. and the need in certain districts for a proper system of sewerage. ...

... HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL REMEDY IS WOMAN'S REALM. DRESS-FASHION-HOME RJMEDY FOR INFANT MORTALITY. The terrible lose of infant life can be greatly reduced; and instead of au infant mortality rate of over one hundred in the thousand we could bring it ...

... *earn asserts itself. Infant mortality is very high owing to the ignorance and of the woman. Since celibacy is coieittlered a diagram, girls are often married an young es ben or twelve. In order to reduce the rate of i n fant mortality some men have tits& ...

... Infantile llonaJity. Referring to infant mortality, the speaker quoted statistics shoeing how enormously the (loath rate among infanta had during the past 10 years. In Cardiff about :OW children sere horn every year, and taking the rati.• the tlecreaso ...

... TOLL OF INFANTS. High Rate at Brecon in 1912. Dr. Rees. medical officer of health for the borough, in his annual report to the Brecon Town Council—which we propose to summarise next week—has drawn attention to the high rate of infant mortality. At Tuesday's ...

... by the public health authorities in connection with the infant mortality crusade, there could be no question of the important part that proper feeding must play in the reduction of the infant death rate. The noiversally acknowledged value of Virol, whether ...

... been passed at the Mansion House meeting in Louder): That in vie w of the serious wastage of child life due to a high infant mortality rate wed to the concomitant damage to the whole race, the citizens here ease rattled pledge themselves to et quire into ...

... only two in excess of that year, and oons«yaeolly the rate of infant mortality per 1,000 net births is the comparatively low one of 110•13. STATISTICS OF PRINCIPAL DISEASES. The rale of mortality from the different diameee we.:—Pbtbieia 111, other tolgerealoos ...

... children under 1 year of aga, an increase of 2an that of the previous year, and the infant mortality was 83.3 for 1909. as cantered with 40.8 tor 1908. Of throe 4 deaths of infants, 3 %yew less one month send 9 were tinder and were due to iweroaturc birth. An ...

... lead to its still wore general nee in this connection, and bring about a masked decrease in the present high rate of infant mortality from this and other It was satisfactory also to note the incrpaotog medical Recommendation of virol as a recog? - stroctive ...

... disease during the year. INFANT MORTALITY. The Council had delegated its powers under the Midwives Act, 1902, to the County Council authorities. The Notification of Births Act, 1907, had not been adopted by the Cooucil. Infantile mortality was satisfactorily ...