... is 33 years. This arises from the lamentable prevalence of infant mortality. I have frequently m these reports called attention this matter, and suggested that the continuous exposure of infants perambulators deserves the most serious consideration. co ...

... population. 4 which less than uue-lifth the whole are cue year or duration of life year, showing both a dtminu tion of infant mortality and .ncreaae th. average duration-d life, being, instead years, at last month, now 30. Eight marriages arc recorded. ...

... amount of sickness has been BroiT 1 amon K* younger folks of the village, gener.i . m lcBS acute, has been very been l infant mortality has recently . a,cr ’* ' l • been for many years past. • *i after short stay fire months, has >trith P ' * * medical ...

... since coming to the -meeting he bad had communication placed in bis hands from Home Hay, drawing attention to the high infant mortality in Alloa, borne out by Nasmyth in his annual report. He thought that parents might be informed as to the proper dietingof ...

... kantead teiß,.* INFANT IN ALLOA. m rat aua» ovmmafc. 15lb April, IW. Sib,—ln your column* rtetttUf there tppe*r*d seme oonreapomlenoe on the siul sUtistks of the furnished to Kegistrar’s returns for In which the Urge infant mortality was discussed. The ...

... to the Perry.—l am, Ac., A Member or the “Ctcuwts Touring Club.” INFANT MORTALITY. ALLOA AOVSSTMSS. Sir,— observe letter signed Young Mortality your last issue, regarding infant mortality,—a subject that have often alluded to your columns ...

... the ca-e if proper sanitary precautions were universal. The valuable lives are the most exposed. Considering the rate infant mortality, can hardly in error allow twenty years ot* life be lost by each of the 125,000 preventible deaths. What is the value ...

... —total 04, being 9 per 1000 the nopnlalion. Of these 12, mote than one third are'uuiler one year of prevailing cause this infant mortality being beonchitia combined with hooping cough. Of the aged, one ShS, two 74, and one 73. The overage dotation life years ...

... 7or nearly one third of these, are under year, while are 72, 75, and respectirely. The rate is abnormally low, but the infant mortality is abnormally high. There have been marriages registered. HEALTH TUB BURGH. Dr Kirkwood, the luedic.il officer fur the ...

... 1000 per annum), which closely corresponded with the same quarter of last year, which was 24 There had been 30 births. Infant mortality bad been small. Owing to the closinß of the schools the spreading of scarlet fever baa almost ceased. The epidemic bad ...

... Kogaley, which five men and two boys lost their Uvea. Out of every 1000 infants born in Sunderland 500 die before they grow up out of infancy t At Newcastle the infant mortality is not much less—44o per 1000—while in Halifax, Bradford, Derby, and Birkenhead ...

... during the winter raontlis. Mortality was i generally higher during the colder months of the year, especially among very young and old people ; but there was very inipoitant fact to i be noticed in connection with infant mortality. lu the case of infauts ...