... diseases, 15; various other causes, 69. INFANT MORTALITY. The number of deaths under 5 years of age was 41, being at the rate of 4 2 per 1,000 per annum, compared with 4-4 lor the previous year. The mortality in infants under oae year ...

... to go out to work and leave bar children to be cared for, she iid. But we must face things as they are. The terrible infant mortality is due to the fact that the poor mother is often obliged to uegleet her children. The Bishop, after declaring his interest ...

... animal food altogether. The death-rate among both blacks and whites in December was three times the average, and the infant mortality is very high. Privations are beginning to tell, adds the correspondent, and until we get relief in the shape of provisions ...

... that inquests were held: at Bterstry , on Tuesday on eight infants who were autocated while in bed with their parents has spin drawn attention to the clause dealing with thisform of infant mortality in the new Children's. Act, which comes into force on April ...

... rewarded by • steady improvement in their moral and physical condition , and by an increase in their numbers. While I infant mortality and tuberculosis prevail to a considerable extent among Canadian Indians, better education and an increase of knowledge ...

... the heaviest mortality has been from diseases of the lungs sod heart, and from cancer. Sixteen from the disease of the ?urge, sir of which were from phthisie, nine Jying from diseases of the heart, and four from cancer. The infant mortality is a low one ...

... saret. INFANT MORTALITY IN FRANCE. At a meeting of the French Maternal Friendly Society, U. Darthou, Minister of the Interior. attributed the shrinkage of the French populatioe to the hard conditions of life of working-elm The a ro . , he, or infant day ...

... opinion of the medical profession that the unsuitab!ei milk very often given to young children is one great cause of infant mortality, and also that the ricketty ci.ndition and the poor physical development of large numbers of the ris;ng generation are ...

... urban district a very high rate of infant mortality was reported and in the Barmouth urban district an enormously high rate of infant mortality. Corwen, on the other hand, had a low rate of infant ...

... said the infant mortality was very high. But for that, the report would have been a very favorable one. Mr Bevan asked if the Medical Officer suggested that there were i\ny suspicious circumstances con- nected with the high rate of infant mortality? Dr. Evans: ...

... infantile mortality. Leaflets Lad been distributed containing instructions to the female p pulation of the county on this subject, and it was hoped that girls would be taught at school the ordinary duties of materni.y, so far as the teeding of infants was concerned ...

... per annum. Deaths of Aged Persons. a i.e. a per woo per annum. The death-rate for the month is satisfactory, and the infant mortality is also very satisfactory. There were mo deaths from plithisis regia tereck ENGINEER'S REPORT. - • I to report as follows ...