...imperfections in the census enumeration of the ages of young children, infant mortality is most satisfactorily measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered. Infant mortality in Scarborough borough during 1874, measured in this manner, was equal to 153 per...

...19-5 per 1,000 or so much as 5 "] below the average rate in eighteen of the largest English towns. Infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births was but 133 per 1,000, whereas in the seventeen other towns it ranged from 162 in Ixmdon to 245 in...

...infantile mortality averages 165 per 1,000. In Portsmouth it was 123 ; in Leicester, 213. The total infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births, was equal last winter to 167 per 1,000, against 143 and 146 in the first quarters of 1873 and 1874....

...deaths to its population, the number of deaths referred to the principal zymotic diseases, and its infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered." >Smallj>ox this year ravaged the kingdom as not before since 1838, and caused Hi, 26s deaths. The letter...

...36-4 in Macclesfield, is a sufficient proof that excessive death-rates in towns are not inevitable. Infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births, is referred to at some length. The average proportion in England and Wales during the quarter was 127...

...129,537 of infants under one year of age, and 124,059 of persons aged upwards of sixty years. The rate of infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births w.is 146 per 1,000, against 149, 151, and 158 in the three preceding years, and was lower than in any...

...the death-rate, and is stated at so many per 1000 per annum. The rate of infant mortality is usually measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered, and is also expressed as so many per 1000. Thus we will suppose that the deaths of children under one...

...1877. Now that few births and still fewer deaths escape registration, says the " Lanoet," the rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered, affords a comparatively trustworthy test of sanitary condition. Infant mortality thus measured was...

...death-rate from diseases of the respiratory organs, excluding phthisis, averaged only 4.0 per 1,000 persons living in those sanitary districts for which...sanitary districts than in the twenty largest English ¡o-.vn=, among which it ranged from 107 and 1 19 in \Volverhampton and Portsmouth, to 161 and 219...

...deaths to its population, the number of deaths referred to the principal zymotic diseases, and its infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered." Smallpox this year ravaged the kingdom as not In-fore since 1838, and caused 16,268 deaths. The letter...