... where there are four or five others in a well-closed room. So much is due to the naintenance of our orthodox rate of infant mortality. ...

... I ?? TIIE LAST MORTALITY TABLES. The official tables of the mortality which has occurred during the last three months, ending September '30th, in 115 of the principal districts of England, just isssued by the Registrar General, show a large increase in ...

... at all ages. Tbis is an astounding fact, yet perfectly consistent with prior observationr; if the general mortality be large, the infant mortality will ever be found to bear Its duo pro. portion, and the causes, In such a ?? as this, are psrfeetiy obvious ...

... Preston wasisold vast quantities of noxious compounds bearing the ominous name of Infant's quiet ness - (hear) - and all of* them knot the height to which infant mortality bad arisen in that town. - (Hear, bear.) It was also etated by Mr. Clay that It was ...

... delegates attended, and the communication intended to be sent to the ?? of Normanby was read, in which it was shown that the infant mortality was less in Preston, than in ten other large towns where no burial society was established. In the same communication ...

... QUARTERLY TABLE OF MORTALITY. The quarterly table of morlality, in 116 districts of Eng. land (including the principal towns), for the quarter ended June, 1846, has just been published by authority of the registrar-general. The general remarks on the ...

... at least, if we could not have recorded such instances of longevity, that we might have had the pleasure of knowing that infant life was free from the blighting influences at work in less favourably situated towns, and here escaped the ravages of malaria ...

... population of the country, who are Protestant and Catholic Dissenters from that Church, and 1,1000 congregations who disapprove infant baptism ; and must practically pnnish them (inclu. ding, too, the community wbo mssay purchase or derive pro. perty from them) ...

... claiming from Thee. This week's Punch, speaking: of the Saint Stephen's Bill of Mortality, ?? regret to state that the week's returns exhibit an awful mortality among the infant bills, An increase in the number of 'these deaths is 'always to be expected about ...

... districts of the country? Dr. Lyon Playfair's report says, out of 100 deaths in Man- chester, 60 to 66 are of infants under 5 years of age. Nor is mortality usually subjected to these conditions. Dr. Playfair shows in another portion of his report that children ...

... same sleep go shorn and withered down. llow short the rapid months appear, Since round this board we met, To welcome in the infant year, Whose star hath now for ever set ! zilas ! as round this board I looh, I think on Inore than I behold. For glossy curls ...

... precursors, have fastened on the young and old, the strong man and the female child, the mother in the prime of life, and the infant on the breast. Whole families lie down together on the damhp tioqr, or on a scanty sop of rotten straw, devoured by fevi3) ...