... a teaspoonful of boiling water. With this punch the infant's cries arc stilled- occasionally for ever. Dr. Jones gives a conspicuous place to density of population as a cause of infant mortality. The model dwvelliags, that huge block of buildings ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. 0 . % ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION. Yesterday evening Dr D Edgar Flinn, F R C S, Dip. Pub. .Health, lectured in the Leinster Lecture HalL, Molesworth street, on the subject of Child Mortality: its Causes and Prevention, before the members ...

... INFANT DEATHS AND DUBLIN DEATH RATE. . TO THE OF THE July 7th, 1888 Ij*ar Sir—The connsction between th» hitr'h death rate in Dublin and infant mortality appears very intimate if compare th« following figures the Kcgistrar-Genoral report of weeks endinu ...

... of hygiene and the prevention of infant mortality were the other topics that Qccupied the attention of the ladies' section of the Congress. One figure mentioned by Miss Isabel Smith on the subject of infant mortality is little less --a appalling. While ...

... was told at . the inquest heldyesterday on the exhumed body of an infant at the Coombe. it is a repulsive I ,,subject to write or read about. No won- der that the rate of infant mortality is a, disgrace to our civilisation when suach -things arepossible ...

... spread the disease, and the milk is the more usual source of infection. To this must be attributed the fact that the infant mortality from consumption has not decreased in at all the same proportion as the adult mor- tahty. It. is therefore plain that ...

... better G. The high mortality, as Sir Chrles Cameron has pointed out in his re- port, is due chiefy to two diseases, measles and infatile cholera or diarrhoea- This is the season when the latter disease works such havoe ong the infant population of large ...

... as to Lord Lonsdale being a very good sort. STARcH POISONING has been said, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child ill it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... ns of the coroner at a recent in- quest in Belfast regarding the enormous infant mortality of the Orange capital obtained from Mir Asquith the information that such 1 mortality is to be attributed to defective 2 sanitation. Surely it is time that Belfast ...

... ion between the sexes not great and is diminishing, there is a greater variety ...

... jenats, 0 a s, 33; total animnals. 56,364. Snnucx PoisomiNG has been said, on goeo authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a fIlI mouth od teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... therein within 'six months after she had given birth to a child. He quoted a nsmber of statistics to prove that the rate of infant mortality was always greater in the counties where a large number of mar- ried women worked at a trade. Mr Howard (Sheffield) having ...