... out that the rate of infant mortality is generally regarded. from the hygienic point of view, as a sensitive index of the condition of the population. Another encouraging fact that Dr Curnow has to record is the low maternal mortality rate for 1945. which ...

... reached positively alarming proportions in Cornwall, where it has sank to 17.87 for 1915, against 21.3 for England andpWHK infant mortality, too, is heavy, being 91.22 per thousand births, or very nearly one ; every tpn children born. The death-rate shows increase ...

... week. The challenge will see four Cornish people trekking across the Jordan Desert to fund research into the study of infant mortality. Truro's Cornwall Dance Centre was the venue for the event, held on Sunday. The workout was led by Oriel Bennett. a fitness ...

... INFANT MORTALITY.— ADVICE TO MOTHERS. One ot the most important topics dealt with by Dr. Pullin, the Siduaouth Medical-officer of Health) was infant mortality and its causes. At Siduaouth the rate was equal to 57 per 1,000. Though not so serious as in ...

... deputation at the House of Commons from public health authorities on the question of infant mortality Mr. Burns, replying after the Prime Minister, said that on the subject of infants' food the deputation would hear with pleasure that the Local Government Board ...

... childbirth, giving a maternal mortality rate of .19 per 1,000 births. In 1962 106 babies had died during their first year, giving an infant mortality rate of 20.4 per 1,000 live births. Nearly half had been prematurely born. One infant died with multiple congenital ...

... who prefer to save money at the expense of human life. Tea drinking, the medical officer adds, is as great a cause of infant mortality as anything he knows of. The mothers drink tea three or four tin es a day, and the children are regularly domed with ...

... the money spent on the health services. On the maternal mortality' side they were saving 40 mothers, in every five-year period. Last year the maternal mortality rate was 2.53 and the infant mortality figure was, 36 and for England and Wales 49. As Dr. Curnow ...

... rate. The death rattle in St. Austell, Grampound, and Nevagiasey an leas. Powey is the same as the preceding year. The infant mortality in lees in St. Austell. Grampound and Nevagissey, whilst there is an Increase in the frowsy district. In conolueioo, ...

... FEWER. 39 children died during 192 i, who were under one year of age, being a decrease of one compared with 1923. The infant mortality rate wag tljerefore 62.1 per thousand of the total birth rate (the rate for 1921 was WI) and compares favourably with ...

... 1912 1917 1919 INFANTILE MORTALIT euriouely 41 deaths of children node, one were reentered. giving an infant mortality rate per thousand births of 52.7. which compares with 90.0 for 1419, in a vary striking satiefactory reduction. and it fact constitutes ...

... over the previous year. but wire less than the ten years* average at 15.2. The increase was our almost entirely to the infant mortality, aril to the number of deaths of persona over 65 years of age. Tl.e health and the sanitary condition of the &strict ...