... 1892-93 and stands at 688. Taking the birth-rate at only 40 per milk per annum and infant mortality at 25 per cent., and assuming further that of two-thirds of the infants death occurs in the first six months of life, and number of children who survive ...

... eupply, the more re. liable registration of births, the very valuable suggeetions made for dealing with the question of infant mortality and various other exceedingly desirable reforms which made for tits better sanitation of the city. Dr. Sen in asking ...

... people and acted .as a check to the growth of population. The highest mortality was in Behar, owing to severe oatbreaks of cholera and plague, and the lowest in Chota Nagpur. Infant mortality though still high, was somewhat lower than that of 1905. the highest ...

... of tetanus in this city, and I that it was beginning to rival cholera in the mortality which it causes. Infants appear to be peculiarly liable to tetanus. The infant mortality in the ten years 1881-90 from this disease almost equalled that from all other ...

... into the vernacular. He remembered having contributed a penny pamphlet upon babies,but whether it helped to diminish infant mortality here, lie was unable to say. The society needed some subscriptions, but they also wanted people to take an interest in ...

... on the one hand, t ere are at present no signs of any diminution of the prevalet ci. of marriage, while on the other, infant mortality is likely to he checked by the increase of dispensaries in small towns, and by the extension of sound medical instruction ...

... draw attention to another paragraph in the report, and that was about the fearful development of infant mortality in the inoidli of August. This mortality was very serious, some Soo pet t,uou births, but it was gravely slated that m Augu it reached the ...

... great obstacle to to 6,319,but for the reason mentioned in par- the correct registration of infant and child graph 4 below, it is probable that the mortal- mortality,and throws doubt en the returus for ity in the past year was larger. all diatricts,although ...

... new-born babies is obsertied in Calcutta, by the pet:mice( 'Upper Indid'whis' are domiciled here or tome fot trade. Infant' mortality is comparatively •rare in the E. and G. Sections of Calcutta and this is due I presume to the use of opium in the ly ...

... child and infant ; Mr. Burgess ; Mr. D. Mal. color ; Mr. and Mrs. Crabbo, infant and nurse ; Mrs., 9 Misses and Muter Kemp ; Mr. and Mrs. Orinerod ; Mrs. Cleau ; Mrs. Staples ; Miss C. Hamblin ; Miss Fluent and maid ; Miss B.,ragge; Mr. F. Pearse ; Mr ...

... 26, 1891. HEALTH OF CALCUTTA. IN SPITS or lIMUSUALLY LOW MORTALITY from cholera, the year 1890 appears from the official returns to have been an extremely unlsoalthy one in Calcona. The death-rate ruse from 36'9 in 1889 to 38'5-1 serious creltoe, having ...

... Calcutta where • larger proportion of mothers suckle their infants, and cows milk though admittedly impure is usually boiled, which makes even impure milk comparatively safe, though the feeding of infants in Calcutta leaves much to be desired. There i s a p ...