... INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mostality rate shows the number of deaths of children under one year of age per one thousand births. In 1917 in the borough Of Heywood it was 129. as agninst 136 in the preceding year. In England and Wales at was 97. Yen r ...

... l»*eil© and Rotten Park. In the former ward th© d©ath-rate was 15.7 and the infant mortality rate 181; Bolton Park th# tguree 14.0 and 177. tb« desth-rnto was 12-1 and infant mortality vat© dewth-rnte in th© 1© ring. The Outer Ring, The highest death-rate ...

... the years 1913-16, and the infant mortality rates among various sections of the population taken from official sources. The figures are often incomplete, but taken as they arc from journals published in Germany, devoted to infant welfare, local government ...

... Cameron, Deputy and Assist- Officer, in an the Du tham Citisens’ on_ the question of infant’ mortality, rr bat Dur- ham had the of having the highest infant mortality rate a administrative coun ties of England. Prob. per cent. of the were assigned diseases ...

... The high death rate has led to a large evension of infant welfare work in which voluntsry so3ietiem have played 'an active part, but the movement is becoming mare and more municipal. Th infant mortality rate in Germi.ny in 1913 wa.s 151 1 - )ar thousand ...

... figures themselves and see in what this extraordinary rise of infant mortality consists before accepting or explaining it. In Prussia, with its forty million inhabitants, the infant mortality for the third quarter (the figures are given in the Appendix) ...

... equivalent to the loss of 000,000 babie The report describes the taken by the German authorities to check the rising raie of infant mortality, milk priority schemes and addi. including tional food Ra ations for mothers and children, pe a dan ...

... describes the measures taken by the German authorities to check the rising rate of infant mortality, including milk priority schemes and additional food rations for mothers and chiklren. ...

... measures taken to improve it. All students of vital statistics know that infant mortality—which means the proportion of children dying within a of birth—is much higher in Germany than in this country. Indeed the Germans, who claim an all-round superiority ...

... remarkable thing that the three countries where infant mortality was lowest were countries where women had the vote-4 Norway, New Zealand, and Australia—and the country which had the highest infant mortality was that in which the power of women was the ...

... remarkable thing that the three countries where infant mortality was lowest were countries where women had the vote—Norway, New Zealand, and Australia—and the country which had the highest infant mortality was that in which the power of women was the l ...

... period within which rationing was introduced, tbe death-ral* has been the lowest of recent year*. In the aame period infant mortality was very low. ...