... INFANT MORTALITY The mortality occurring in infants under one vear of age is 25,-as compared with 35 in the previous year. The estimated death-rate per thousand hildren born in the district during the year is 117. In the previous year thoe death-rate ...

... INFANT MORTALITY The speaker, proceeding, alluded to the increased infantile mortality rate which said was closely connected with the question of drinking amongst women While they realised the sacrifice of the country's finest manhood the battle fields ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Croydon is setting to work in a very thorough way to further the borough Council's efforts to reduce the deplorable infant mortality. Last year the deaths of infants under one year in the populous West Ward were as high as ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. C. E. PARKER then read the following paper on infant mortality: To an audience composed of members of the Guild of Help it is unnecessary to urge the seriousness of the high rate of Infant ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Twenty-five of tho total number of deaths occur in infants under one year—almost 20 per cent. — and represent an infant mortality of 107 for every 1,000 children born to the township. In considering the ratio of ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. Long, President of the Local Government Board, gives the following figures to the deaths of children under one year of age England and Wales the six months ended March 31, the following 1913, 47,274; 1914, 48,965; 1915, 50,219; 1916 ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Then had the cost of the lunacy that had been caused drink, and the crime and pauperism that were attributable drink, the terrible infantile mortality that was attribut able drink. Dr. Norman Porrett, medical officer of health for H ...

... INFANT MORTALITY, Mr. Winstone, South Walee, said he was afraid sufficient attention was not paid to the enormous slaughter of the innocents brought about by improper housing At the Chureh Congress at Middlesbrough one of the chief speakers deplored the ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. It wu satMfaclorjr note that although *1 aat higher in 1913 than 1912, the general trend c( the nine infantile monahty •atia* facton.. The large*! number out of given namner Itorn survived the end f 4 the fifth year rural dial nets, ...

... INFANT MORTALITY Referring Burnley's high infantile mortality, Councillor Irving urged his hearers to read what wae in many respects an excellent article which had appeared on that subject in the loc»l Press. Back to back houses and insanitary dwellings ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Lancashire One of the Worst Counties. problems are answered and manr new problems raised by a report issaed by the Local Government Board on Tneeday on infant and child mortality. In the past attempts to reduce infant ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Investigation of the figures given by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board in his annual report on infant mortality for period of years—l9o7 to 1910—shows that the borough of Leigh occupies the following positions with regard ...