... INFANT MORTALITY. The infant mortality was remarkably low ciuring the week ended 18th July, only eight deaths having occurred, corresponding rate of 45.7. In neither week was any death returned amongst infants due to diarrhoea, but this is ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Special Inquiry in Four Districts. is announced tn*at in four selected districts in this country, namely, Sunderland, Croydon, Oxfordshire, and parts of Staf■ fordshire, very careful inquiry is to be carried out, over period of twelve ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. it was hoped that the Duchess of Beaufort would be able to preside at the conference of women on hygiene, held at the lesser ball of the Victoria Rooms, but her Grace wrote stating that the recent death of her mother-in-law, the Dowager ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. A letier from the National Conference on In- fantile Mortality, held in March, was received, asking the council to support a resolution at the conference the Board of ucation and educationa] rities gener- to take such steps as would ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. one Tear. Cf the 4,822 deaths, 1.075 were infants under The proportion of these deaths to every 1,900 births (infant mortality). was 116.3, ray pared with a rate of 130.7, returned last year. T he rate recorded in the 76 ...

... said the birth-rate of the country was going down, and infant mortality was not lessening. This gave rise to reflections fu as to the future of our national efficiency. The mtal cause of infant mortality was the want of recognition of the duties of mother- ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. J. M.Ballenden, M.D., tho medical officer to the Local Board of the nailmaking and mining district of Sedgley, near Wolverhampton, in his annual report, says that nearly two-thirds of the population died daring the past year before ...

... MORTALITY you have the goodness to insert a few lines from one who considers it his daty to complain. All who bave read your obituary for the Inst few weeks must have been struck with the increase in the number of deaths, espe- cially among children, ...

... visit to the Infant Mortality Conference, held on June 13th and 14th, in which he stated that the aim of the conference was to consider the social conditions bearing directly or indirectly upon the causation of undue and preventible mortality in infancy ...

... is plain that as the high rate of infant mortality was still kept up, some other cause mnst have come in to prevent the amendment which ought to have been coincident with the removal of this cause. In Leeds the infant deaths were at the rate of 205 per ...

... MORTALITY. 4 grave has been Made against the mothers of Macclesfield by Mr Aliwood, a locai medical lau, who, ag recent inquest om the body of a child w: hich had beem neglected, and had died of Starvation, said he could bear testimony to the amount of ...

... Lowest Infant Mortality Rate on Record THE lowest infant mortality rate on record was reported to i Bristoi Health Committee yesterday Dr. R. H. Parry, Medical Officer 01 Health. ' There were 269 infant deaths in 1942. he said, and of ...