... INFANT MORTALITY. The recent cold and wet weather has had a disastrous effect upon the health of children in Liverpool. At the last meeting of the Health Committee it was Mmumudmu-wmm was 340, being 163 more than in the corresponding motum.mvammm--mn ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. During the hearing of a case the other afternoon, at Manchester, in which a mother had overlaid her infant, the deputy city coroner, Mr. Sidney Smelt, made several strong remarks cn the growing frequency of cases of this class, not only ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AT BIDEFORD Prebendary Dimond Churchward presided over Tuesday's meeting of the Bideford Guardians. The chairman and the vice-chairman (Mr. W.H.Turner, \ j.p.) were appointed delegates to the South-Western Poor-law Conference.—The Chairman ...

... (including five rnT ouse) was 104, giving a death rate of U.b. The infant mortality was 19 against average rate 72, the Devon rural rate for 1900 being 76. The rate of infant mortality was remarkably low. The sanitary condition of the villages had been ...

... Conference held at the Mansion House, London, last week, under the anep'cas of the National Association for the P eventirn Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy. ...

... right side. The net death rate stationary. rate of infant mortality, or ■other words, the rate of deaths under 1 year ot age. per 1,000 births for the year 1914, was Abb. The average infant mortality for the past three years was only 60.7. The reports ...

... population of about 7,000. The death-rate in the aren was 32 per 1,000, as against 16 per 1,000 for the whole town. The infant mortality rate was per 1,000 births, as against 157 per 1,000. A medical mission treated in less than three years 1,146 cases ...

... accumulation of testimony shewing the futility of vaccination as prophylactic, and its pernicious effects in accelerating infant mortality, have recently appointed an Imperial Medical Commission to investigate the question de novo. It may not be generally ...

... BARNSTAPLE'S HEALTH STATISTICS. Infant Mortality Figures Better than for Country. In his annual reoort to the Town Council, Dr. H. C. Jonas, Medical Officer of Health for the borough, states that births during the past year total 215, giving a rate of ...

... the equivalent of a birthrate of 14.8 and 0.4 above the 1933 rate, which was the lowest recorded. At the same time the infant mortality figure fell from to 59,. the lowest on record. There were 476,810 deaths registered in 1934, as compared with 496,465 ...

... cowsheds, bakehouses and slaughter houses. Lieut.-Colonel I remarked that the infant mortality rate for the district spoke very well for the care and attention given to newly-born infant-. The Chairman (Mr. H. Smyth) considered the report very satisfactory and ...

... early spring. Births were 157 (24 5 per 1.000), deaths 72 (11 21 per 1,000). Infant mortality, 76 4 per 1 000. Birth and deathrates shewed a decrease. The improper feeding infants was, unfortunately, only two common. ...