... of the Times leader-writer were a sound one, we should find that in those districts of the country where the death-rate of infants and young children is specially low, the death-rate in early manhood and in middle and later middle life is specially high; ...

... Lancashire, seems due the credit of introducing into Englen.a the system of supplying sterilised milk in a form ready for infante' food, which has for some time been in operation in various towns abroad. How far the municipalisation of industry is to go ...

... statistic is, I want to direct your attention to a sadder and worser one still. It is to that which tells, not of irresponsible infants removed from the world before they could be soiled by its sins or follies, but of those Who, having glow!' to manhood and ...

... unenviAl. position among large towns in the country with excei4;vv tile mortality. Of the 3,418 deaths, at all ages, registered during the last three months in the city, 730 were of infants under twelve months hi, and 664 of children ranging from one year to ...

... smile; Pool—al shallow as may be With the waters of the *ea. Hear the smiling Bishop ask, What can mean snob infant task? Mark that infant's answer plain-- 'Tis to hold you mighty main! Foolish trifler, Hubert cries, Open, if thou can, thine ...

... science, leading to a great saving of infant life, is certain; for within the period in question until about the date 1876-80, there was no increased saving of infant life whatever; and the death-rate amongst infants and young children increased and decreased ...

... perished in childhood, have had their lives prolonged to a later period, and that when these die their deaths go to swell the mortality records of that later date. But they leave the other side of the case out of sight altogether. I have shown that most of ...

... interesting details of his observations on the influence of maternal inebriety alone upon infant mortality—that is, apart from incidental neglect and cruelty to the infants. His inquiries were made in respect to a series of female drunkards in the Liverpool ...

... were fully justified in the conclusion they drew. The actual annual mortality per cent., as contrasted with the expected mortality, in certain classes is remarkable. Annual Mortality per cent. Actual. E l ected. 59 Publicans • • . .. 2 86 .. 1.56 Innkeepers ...

... lives of their fellow mortals. The insurance offices have found that, as age creeps on, the lives of teetotallers are much better than those of nonabstainers. I refrain, for the present, from reproducing the often-published mortality statistics of the societies ...

... medical investigation into the cause of this rentark able disparity leaves not the slightest room for dont,: that the lesser mortality among the Mohatniiip,lan Tartars is directly attributable to their abstenuto, from the use of spirituous liquors, in which ...

... mute night; And flicker hill and vale around, Without a foe, without a wound. Poor fly! But why thy folly blame? We wiser mortals act the same; On mad ambition's fires we gaze, And, doating. perish in the blaze. —By Dr. (pseudonym Peter Pinder ). ON ...