... merits. It is a well known fact that infant mortality in Calcutta is exceedingly high. About one-third of the children born die every year. A late Health Officer of Calcutta traced this frightful destruction of infant life to the customs of the lying-in-room ...

... ENGLANDER. NATIVE INFANT MORTALITY. TO THE SDI OR Of THE ENOLIBHMAN. was glad to see Dr. Simpson's replies to the question on this subject. The heavy infant mortality no marvel when regard is bad to the that when a woman is to be confined she is thrust ...

... over those registered amounts to nearly three-quarters of a million. The error is probably greatest on the returns of infant mortality, which are given at 169 per thousand for children under one year and about 27 for children between the ages of one and ...

... remembered that two of the three years were years of scarcity and famine, when the birth-rate was abnormally low and infant mortality excessively high, while, during the actual period of famine, it was inevitable that the operations should be restricted ...

... use the water. The speaker then made remarks on the increase of infant mortality, and move) that a ouiumittee of mediurl mew be appointed to enquire into the causes of this high mortality among ja m as with a view to taking measures to check it. The V ...

... attention had L drawn to the fact that the death-rate of infants in Calcutta under one year of age was 401;''', per mille in 1894, and he enquired to - what causes this heavy rate of mortality was duo. Some of the Commissioners have recently pat questions ...

... it certainly seems hardly astonishing that infant mortality runs high in the Laccadives. Exposure on Mount Taygetns or legalised infanticide would hardly show more disastrous returns. If the unfortunate infant did not die of a diet of rice at twenty days ...

... years. Getter mortality was higher during the period ander review, fever and cholera being mainly responsible for the increase The total number of deaths was 7,223 against 6,023.1 t is noticeable that the greatest increa-e in the mortality ratio occurred ...

... of a fakir taking the disease in a house mt disinfected where plague had not previously occurred. He showed that infant plague mortality was nil, and stated that no corpse inspection exiated in the period between the two outbreaks in Kotri, but let the ...

... largest number of victims, the latter taking off some seventy more than in the preceding month. A similar decrease in infant mortality for the month in question is reported, the number falling from 406 in January to 347 in the following month. WHEN THE ...

... demands an unrepresented class of persons they do not know how to be just, if nut joierous. The large percentage of infant i mortality, mainly due to the surroundings of the lying-in-room, is a blot on the municipal administration of tA i and it Can ...

... emotion the great drama of pain and sorrow of which a thousand scenes are daily played in this great city—the tetrible infant mortality, the precious lives wasted for want ' of simple assistance, the attacks of preventable disease, the long drawn torture ...