... held in the Museum, College ?? North, -a paper was read by Surgeon- Major 111-Farland upon. the subject of infant n, insurance and infant mortality. Professor e Byars, M.D., occupied the chair. The subject having been fully disonssed,, the following resolu- ...

... Belfast is not as good as could b. be desired; and it is far from pleasant to read m Councillor Barklie's account of infant mortality. fc The official report of the Librarian to the w Belfast Free Public Library is now in no circulation; and we are glad ...

... Prince has been ( inqtrumental in restoring, beaning nearly the whole i expense in each case.] WHAT 1S THE GREAT SEcRET OF INFANT MORTALITY? It differs with times and seasons, but the, chief permanent factor is Tuberculosis, which recent investigation has shown ...

... inquest I on a poor little chiLd; and at the time it met its c death the father and mother rere in a public-house. The infant mortality was terrible. When people P take the responsibility of parents upon theiselves tbey should attend to their children. ...

... at the invitation of Lady Henderson (then Lady Mayorcss), met to consider the best means of doing something lol lessen infant mortality in the city. Mlany chii- dren, whose mothers have to wvork in factories, are left without proper care, so that their ...

... Countess of0 Desart can only discover six reasons why the Russians object to the Jews- They increase rapidly, and their infant mortality is at a lower rate than that of their, masters; they do not amalgamate, and become lost in the Slav races ; they are ...

... have sunk to the lowest depth of squalor and misery; they suffer from chronic asthma, and, of course, the rate of infant mortality is high. There wocld seem to be no remedy, but to destroy the in. dusttry, at least as a home trade. As the foreigners ...

... of women. AVr. Mundella, M.P., presided. -Dr. Latham, mnedical officer of health for Manchester, said that the rate of infant mortality per thousand children born was in Preston, 220 ; Blackburn, 181 Salford, 183; MAlanchester, 178; Oldham, 171. The principal ...

... some of the Women. has something to do with it, and some- times the want of enough tea and bread. Yon are aware thot the infant mortality in Bel- fast is great?-Yes, that would, no doubt, increase the death-rate, but I Think the want of this sort of inquiry ...

... work in Belfast. It has been proved that mueb of Belfast a apparent 'high death-rate is due, to the large proportion of infant mortality, many of the deaths being due to neglect. Under these circumstances, the Day kNur- series scheme is one deserving of ...

... that the drinking caf tubercular inilk was e infinitely more dangerous than the eatincg off tuber s culoa flesh. 'The infant mortality from tubereu- t losis wa.>t very- high. Statistics showved tlimt about c 30 per cent. of the deathfs off yourngt children ...

... of the high de'vti-r.ale, Dr. Ciihborn stated that the infant mortalite tended to make the death-rate hig-her than it ouzht. . to be, and Dr. Coantes stated' theat a highl. rate of c infant mortality usua.lly accompanied. a high birth- rate, and it wra-s ...