... in the main, judicious handling are the employment of children and married women (especially mothers), the effect on infant mortality of fatiguing or unwholesome occupations, unsanitary con- tions of labour, the sweating system, the demand for improved ...

... jenats, 0 a s, 33; total animnals. 56,364. Snnucx PoisomiNG has been said, on goeo authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a fIlI mouth od teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... trenches, and the women were either down colony or in the women’s laager. For the first few months of the siege the rate of infant mortality and deaths among aged people were terribly high. It was a case of the survival of the fittest. Several thousand falsehoods ...

... namely, fifty. The average life of'our brawny Highlinders is about fifty-five,and that is high, if we' consider that the inf'ant. mortality is great, owing to the tyin'g l spverity:.of the winter climate. If Sabies surylve, he'vwever, they grow up hiardyibraWvn7' ...

... then it has become an extinct institution. STARCH PGISONINqG has been said; on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... his attention to the domestic results of the factory system. He denies that the system has produced a large increase of infant mortality; it is linown, he says that the general death-rate has much 'The Modern F1actory System. By R. v\ hately Cooke Taylor ...

... still manv of ih«se slaughter houses the unsanitary of which was doubt ess a fruiti fnl source lisna*e. The question of infant mortality was one most deserving attention. niiiny the cases that had come his own know! re children were allowed get burned to ...

... pi-oblem is no doubt -x'cry deeply mixed up in the question e of infant mortality ; but even so we cannot adimit that the panacea Ih for all ifls would be discovered if 90 per censt. of the infants who dic could be saved to thle nation, and if the average dcath ...

... de___ths were due to what may be termed unavoidable erases, and not in any sense due to defective sani- tation. The rat? of infant mortality was 88.7 per I.OCO. and was si.mewhat higher than in the two previous years, but lower than in 1895. The births repiesentel ...

... Brockwell about cricket. Some excellent hints on the management of babies should be widely read. It is not only in Derby that infant mortality is high. During 1892 the baby death-rate in England was nearly 24 per cent. of the total number of deaths; in Scotland ...

... zymotic death-rate and' the infant mortality of Dublin, the sanitary condi- tion of the city- would appear to be as satisfactorj as that of the English towns, and even as that 01 London. Many sanitarians regard the infant death-rate to be as a measure ...

... invention for *nurssry use, called a baby washer, is announced, and the inventor describes his infant machine as follows :-You simply insert the begrimed infant in an orifice, which can be made any required size bv tornineg for four minutes a cog wheel with ...