... the health of the children. To one who knows Lan- cashire life, a reference to the half-timers brings to mind a high infant mortality caused by the mothers working in the mills, and putting out their in- fants to be nursed a little army of child workers ...

... medical officer deplore the HIGH INFANTILE MORTALITY, but it is consoling to that while of sverv 1,000 children born in 1895 in the county, 201 died before completing the tint; vear of IifV. the infant mortality rate for 1896 was 1807. An interesting paragraph ...

... HEALTH. By DR. ANDREW WILSON,F.R.S.E. infant Mortality. I have been reading a very sensible letter ad- dressed to the alitor of a medical journal by a medical man on the high death rate which pre- vails among infants in our great centres of popu- lation ...

... medical officer deplore bhe HIGH INFANTILE MORTALITY, but it is consoling to know that while of every 11,000 children born in 1895 in the county, 201 died before completing the first. ytar of liff. the infant mortality rate for 1896 was 1807. An interesting ...

... man, the wife, and their family. The rooms are damp, there is no ventilation, and it is not suprising that the rate of infant mortality is very high. The closet arrangements are abomin- able; the water supply of two-thirds of the villages ia insufficient ...

... according to the poss figures of the local medical officer of tion health, Cardiff has by no means the bad were name for infant mortality which attaches aid to several of our largest towns. satiE ?? ?? ?? Now that an important industrial shad struggle has ...

... HEALTH. By DR. ANDREW WILSON, F.R.S.E. INFANT MORTALITY. I have been reading a very sensible letter ad- dressed ro the editor of a medical journal by a medical ma i ou the high death rate which pre- vails %mong infa-nts in our great centres of popu- lation ...

... attention to the same state of things. The death rate has gone up within the past few years 30 per cent., while the rate of infant mortality is simply appalling. The medical officer of health declares this is due to defective public sanitation, and not unnaturally ...

... in his last annual report, where he states that the infant mortality is very excessive. (Right here is a chance for the concoctor of small jokes: he may put it in the form of a question—Can an infant be a collier 2 Whilst he is enjoying his own sharpness ...

... wholesale baby-farming, practised by even the well-to-do married couples, and still more by the poor, and the extensive infant mortality. --0- The Empress Frederick has ordered four silk dressei for the Princess Victoria's trousseau in Athens. The silk ciresnes ...

... diseases, with a general lowering of vitality, being the inevitable accom- paniment. I THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. Infant mortality in exceptionally high in Glamorgan, and the general cause ought certainly to be investigated specially. In the urban ...

... good deal of vitality and mortality in our little State on the banks of the Taff. Nothing remarkable about these totals, when com- pared with other large towns, calls for comment. We are ordinary folk after all Infant mortality is high, but not higher than ...