... NORMOUS INFANT MORTALITY Dr G. Danford Thomas, at an inquiry as to the death of an overlain child in London, said that he held 300 cases annually on children who were suffocated in bed with their parents. There were over 1000 children suffocated in London ...

... INFAN MORTALITY. attention of the Home Secretary is being given at the present moment to the excessive infant mortality in certain artisan towns where women are largely engaged in factory labour. There can be no question that the excessive mortality in many ...

... to Tae infant mortality of Tokio is hi faves is the too early exposure of new-born cb not unosual to see a week-old baby stra on the back of a child about eight, an: sent out to be jumbled about as its infant nurse plays and romps with other children ...

... about four children. An average of something like four is mecessary, we know, to keep up population, and to allow for infant mortality, inevitable celibates, and wo forth. Few woman in such a State would from maternity, save those who felt themselves ...

... account for the high infant mortality in the east as compared with the west end in any other wey. After-neglect Imy account for much, but the bad start must be credited with a very large proportion of the high death - rate among infants. Look at the figures ...

... feared that Lord Trayner had too good grounds for the remarks he made at the Perth Cireuit Court yesterday in regard t infant mortality, especially among illegitimate children. A case came before him in which two women were charged with causing the death ...

... the sale of aleoholic stimulants. One of the important matters with whieh it will deal will be that of infant from suffocation, Out 1000 deaths mortality 50 over 280 occur on Saturday, nearly 170 on Monday, and then a gradually decreasing number until Saturday ...

... SUICIDE OF A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY. A Renter's telegram from Vienna announces a sad case of infant suicide. ooosequence of a beating which had receired from his mother, a little boy named Nowatny, seven years of age, threw himself from the fourth floor house ...

... and is the | (of this year when it was lowest as yet for this year. The chief cause of the ‘bigh rate m= the high rymetic mortality, especially from whooping cough. The cases of zymutic sickness | 553 ‘are still imeressing, there being total of ‘cases against ...

... CHANCES OF LIFE IN AMERICA. 10,268 infants (says the Albany Journal } are born on the same day apd enter upon life simultaneously. these, never reach the anniversary their birth ; 9025 commence the second year ; but the proporti of deaths still continues ...

... got on to the teblet recently erected iu memory of the and men of the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infant (74th High- landers) who were killed or mortally wounded at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir on the 13th September, 1882, and then dropped into the nave ...

... DEATH-RATE IN ABERDEEN. — The death-rate in Aberdeen during last month was 20°16 per 1000, as compared with 16°64 in October. Mortality was perticularly high among children, and there was a considerable increase of cases of zymotie diseases, notably measies ...