... doubted, is two.seventh; that is, the average of mortality among rich and poor amounts to this-two out of every nine infants die within the first year. Now, gentlemen, if such is the rate of mortality in England, where science has made such ad- vances ...

... n with the above table of infant mortality within the workhouse, the following table of mortality, collected outside the workhouse, on an infant population of beyond 12,000, be inserted on our minutes :_ A Table of Mortality for Children, ...

... imagined, of if we ascertain the numbers on the death list of a particular ca neighbourhood, and then ascertain the mortality of that class-infants-which chiefly swells these numberi, Mr. d( Chadwick's report spoke of a man. insuring his children in 19 different ...

... age, fur an average of 5 yeaes; their return gives a mortality- In Drogheda of 26 per cent. In Tullavoore of 28 per cent. M Culloch in his mortality tables gives the following as the; mortality of infant life in the cities of London, Vienna, : and Berlin ...

... as might seem best calculated to rescue some of the pauper children from the influence of the mortality which has com- mitted such ravages among the infants of the North Union prison-house. The edict of this worthy, whom our foreign masters have imported ...

... '~of society. The infant boys were wrested from their mo- d e thers and put into apartments where 135 were together, oI h with two old men (paupers) posted a- guards upon the ki -.doors to prevent any access to them. The female infants 2' were nine torn ...

... a given popa.- lation. 2. What proportion the mortality of the infants of the poor-such as are likely to be subjects for workhouse relief-bears to the total mortality which takes place amongst the infants of all classes of society in the same t locality ...

... will show that the mortality in the North Dublin Workhouse, on the whole, has been far less than in those of the London district, even under the disadvantage of an unusually great mortality among the infant children, bad the mortality in this class been ...

... Trik FREL Ma N'S JOURNAL, DUBLIN: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1842. THE MORTALITY AMONGST PAUPER CHILDREN. The Poor Law Commissioners seem to be quite contented with the condition in whichthe infant chil- dren in the workhouse are kept. Nay, they seem ingly take ...

... learned to curse it. Thus it has failed'in every way as a measure of legislation., But to the infant objects of its care it has brought, at least in Dublin, mortality the most frightful. The evidence of the medical gen lemen will at once establish this. Dr ...

... that. the rearing of infant children in a the workhouse is productivebof great mortality; that the commissioners be requested to apply to parliament in the. g .ensulng session for power for the Board of Guardians to y place infant children at nursing in ...

... might be applicable to adults, was, as regarded infants, in- l human, barbarous, and destructive of life. He referred to the Foundling Hospital, formerly in this city, in which no l less than 19.400 infants died in the space of ten years, I while it was ...