... INFANT MORTALITY. The success of the Infant Clinics may be gathered from the fact that in 1918 the infant mortality rate per .1,000 births among 'babies attending the clinics ass 34.5; among babies not attending the clinics 110.1; and for ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Speaking at tho evening meeting the National League for Health and Civic Education on Infant Mortality.” Dr. L. R. Veitch Clark (medical officer of health for Croydon) said that 25 per cent., and probably nerly 50 per cent., the deaths ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. highest death rate in the urban distrirns was 14.16 at Bulk. ington and th., loirezt 10.14 in the borough of Nuneaton. In the rural thstriet.; the highest rate was 14.30 at Southern and the lowest 9.19 at Foleshill. _ Recording an infant ...

... Infant Mortality. Reverting to the treatment of nenous children Dr. Pritchard said they ehouid be regular in their and bars no excitement. , Nothing could worse for them to be in the continual presence of »%• citable mother*, who were always jump, ing ...

... Infant Mortality. Answering Mr. Percy Hurd, witness said he regarded infant mortality statistics as a good standard from which to . judge the sanitary administration of a district. “ What is the rate in Accrington over a recent period of years?—For five ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. 433 deaths 111 children under wi . p!ar, giving an infant, mortality of 66 I.er 1,000 births as against the low figure of 54 in the preyt,tv. This incroase ;s, howtver, regrettable, :s ,lisred alike brtneen urban and rural districts ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Mr. Thompson called attention to this paragraph in the Medical Officer's report:— Tho infant mortality is highly tottisfaetory; this year the rate is only 14.5. which is our lowest on record, the average rate for the previous 10 years ...

... the highly interesting information that there has been a remarkable decline in the rate of infant mortality during the period. 1592 the infant death-rate was per 1000 births; in 1898 it reached the very high figure' of 151, but since that year it has ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. DUDLEY MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT. The Dudley Medical Officer's annual report records a decline in the birth rate for last year and increased illegitimacy. The infant mortality rate had increased from 86.00 in 1923 to 92.24, which, he ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Each year many thousands of babies perish in England before they are 12 months old. In wany cases had mothers but known how to treat their icfants directly the first symptoms of an iliness appeared, a large number of the babies that ...

... INFANT MORTALITY tear* manv thousands of sables in before are tweiso old. In many oaeee. t the mothers bad hot known how to treat their infants directly the firm symptoma of an ,11 DCS appeared, large number the babns- that have died might at til alive ...

... INFANT MORTALITY The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee reported that the infant mortality in Greenwich for the year 1920 was 74 per 1.000, as compared with 75 for London, and 85 for the large towns of the kingdom. The birth rate for the same period ...