... INFANT MORTALITY. The rates for each district were 13.714 in the Banff district and 11.748 in the Keith district. There was an increase of births over deaths of 343, which number represents the natural increase of the population. The deaths of infanta ...

... INFANT MORTALITY During the past ten y.-ars, the total number of births in IVrth was including illegitimate!; while in (In- same jx-riod, there occurred 77S deaths infants under one year age. This gives. us annual infantile death rate (i.e., tin? number ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Bailie Whyte, convener of the Public Health committee, submitted a comparative sistement of the births and deetiis for &period ut eleven numbs ending September, last, as compared with twelve months of the previous year. The most significant ...

... and becoming strong and healthy. That Perth, as compared with the principal towns of Postland, occupies in respect to infant mortality, • most favourable position. ...

... months of last year and for the first three months of this year will reveal alarming figures. 600 Infants a Year. In dealing with the question of infant mortality it is customary to account for fluctuations of the death-rate by making reference to weather ...

... papers were read economy in municipal administration and other subjects. . The Marchioness of Aberdeen read address on infant mortality, and the means of checking it. The Lord Mayor of Belfast was elected President for the ensuing year. ...

... was well expressed by Provost Readdie at Anstruther Town Council, OD Tuesday night. While it is perfectly true that the infant mortality, especially in our manufacturing towns, is something appalling, the remedies suggested in the. Act are only palliatives ...

... Armit, jun., and E. White meet in the Anal. The green will be closed on Saturday by a pairs competition. Prevention of Infant Mortality. ...

... total 16 cases were removed to the hospital. Last year there were 255 legitimate and 45 illegitimate births while the infant mortality numbered 15 legitimate and illegitimate cases. A letter was submitted from the Local Government Board as to the Notification ...

... per litre (about a pint and three-quarters). The “Neue Freie Presse’ cxpresses anxiety that, in such circumstances, the infant mortality will assume considerable proportions. Egzs and hacon are continually inercasing in pric and Viennese housewives find ...

... thoso physically unfits to look after the health not only , of' tho troops at the front , but of . the people at home . Infant mortality is already a national tragedy . Mothers and children are . dying for want of care . ' If these young 1 men are ail sent ...

... attended- at the Board to discuss the action which might bo taken at the present timo with a view to the reduction of infant mortality , and in particular . the question of the amendment of the Notification of Births Act . The Council further reported ...