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... recorded for the West Riding. The death rate for the County was 12.2 compared with 126 yf for each of the two preceding /The infant mortality rate was 81 pe: 1.000 births. years. ...

Published: Friday 25 January 1974
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE Women'’s Institute was founded in this country in 1915 by a Canadian, Mrs. Alfred Watt. Mrs. Watt had already

... Alfred Watt. Mrs. Watt had already founded a similar organisation in Canada where her concern over the high rate of infant mortality, due to ignorance on the part of the mothers, had persuaded her to provide some means by which women could learn the ...

Published: Friday 04 May 1979
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 177 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

Infant death rate rises

... with only two and three in the previous two years. To balance the infant mortality rate, says the report, there has been a drop in the number of stillbirths. But the combined mortality rate in these areas is still above the national average, the report ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1978
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

75 YEARS AGO

... been a decrease in infant mortality and the death rate from the seven common infectioys discases. The %pulation of Brighouse was said to be 22,030, 400 more than the previous year, 571 births were registered and 312 deaths. 65 infants under one year of ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1970
Newspaper: Brighouse Echo
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

M.o.’s Report

... this year, states that the birth rate in 1968 was 15.8 per thousand which was an average figure for the Borough. The infant mortality rate was 36.1 per thousand live births which was “higher than usual”. The death rate of 15.2 per thousand was again an ...

Published: Friday 28 August 1970
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

M.o.’s Report

... this year, states that the birth rate in 1968 was 15.8 per thousand which was an average figure for the Borough. The infant mortality rate was 36.1 per thousand live births which was “higher than usual”. The death rate of 15.2 per thousand was again an ...

Published: Friday 28 August 1970
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Babies at risk

... other parts of the country. Todmorden has twice the regional mortality rate according to shock figures released this week by the Calderdale Area Health Authority. The average infant mortality rate per thousand in Todmorden during 1977 was 314, compared ...

Published: Friday 27 October 1978
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 385 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MORE JOIN CAMPAIGN

... palsy among births, and that the Country’s record of infant and perinatal mortality is now poor, ! The group would like the Government to bring in a maternity programme such as in France where the mortality rate was worse than Britain’s in 1960 but after the ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1978
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

''is': 34401 HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER WEDNESDAY 27 1971 27201 Editorial Departments DRY ROT Marsden ..

... spite the density the popu-I lation of geographical climatic circumstances entailing high risk disease” she said “The infant mortality rate good indication general health is now almost as low Britain’s” Several thousand people broad concrete pathway leaned ...

Published: Wednesday 27 October 1971
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 853 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SADDENED PENSIONER back

... in qug, tity is, to some extent. Made up in quality, for there Were no maternal deaths and only two infant deaths during the year. The infant mortality rate over the four vears 194952 inclusive, was only 20 pe- 1,000 live births, some 30 per cent less ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1979
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 743 | Page: 6 | Tags: none