... steadily increasing during the past century, and that if the births are less numerous in France than elsewhere, the rate of infant mortality is very much lower. Of courec, this argument is highly important, it goes to show tha*; the slow rate of prog rex is ...

... mother or nuise who slept with a child under two years old was punished with imprisonment. Since that law came into forca infant mortality has greatly decreased. LON.MULT STEEPLECHASES (Under the I. N. H. Kales}. Stewards —The Karl Shannon, T Coppinger, Esq ...

... at Nottinghamyesterday, the principal discussion being that on employment of women in factories, and its effect upon infant mortality. At a meeting of the ll:manta of Mechanical Engineers atPortemouth yeeterdaySirFredei ick Bramwell read a paper ca The ...

... Board of Guardians their lasi meeting brings this march i f progress np date. The medical officer submitted report on the mortality infant life in the workhouse. Many these wrehched babies died, he stated, from want of vital beat. recommended that an incubator ...

... Dead Body of an Infant Found. Ln«t evening about 530 the dead body of au infant was found in back stream near Blackpool. An inquest will be held to-day. SUMMARY fiEvVS. In the House of Commons yesterday, The Licensing proposals of the Government were ...

... to distribute copies of notes giving advice on the bringing op of infant a .. ' The Corporation of St Helen's are also about to make an effort to infant life. They have opened an Infants' Mitt Depot for the of sterilised and hu milk for babies. The milk ...

... old, and low and the high, Shall moulder to dust and together shall lie. infant • mother attended and loved, The mother that affections who proved; Tbe that mother and infant who blessed. leek, are away to their dwellings of rest. T. maid on whose cheek ...

... about sixty per cent, of the giesialation were affected with it during the few weeks. Mortality was fivirfully high, was altogether confined to aged people and Infant children. In the Workhouse Hospital there were more than thrPo the ordinary number of ...

... 154. Of these, 78 were males and 76 females. The mortality calculated on the foregoing figures gives a total ratio of 29144 per l,Uoif of the inliahitant4. Excluding deaths in the wdrkhou-e, the mortality would be 23151. The infantile death is 6•5, and ...

... look place in the workhouse ; deaths ot infants momli- ..Id and under, and 6 deaths from in feet bus diseases. The deaths from infectious di.sca.-ea being from diarrhoea and 1 from whoopingcough. The mortality calculated on foregoing figures gives total ...

... account. for ' , high mortality from that disease. number of births registered for the four weeks vas 151, or j 79 males and 72 females. The birth rate stands at 26.96. viz., 13.63 for nudes and 12.42 for females. The mortality calculated on the number ...

... inclndiot* deaths which took place the workhouse ; 17 infants twelve months old and under, and 2. deaths from infectious disease, viz, 1 from whooping cough, and one from diarrhoea. The mortality calculated on the foregoing figures, gives total ratio ...