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BELFAST CORPORTAION

... they should be extremaely chary about tiesing his hands in she performance of his duty.' Councallos' O'Neill referred to infant mortality in Belfast some yeats ago as being enormous, and pointed out that through the present coroner's in- duence that had been ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 1899
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 9637 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

BELFAST HEALTH SOCIETY

... lecturer. Dr. Whitaker, in seconding the motion, said that a great deal of the mortality was due to the death of infants. The health of a town was generally gauged by the mortality. In formet times mothers looked after their children better than they do now ...

Published: Thursday 26 January 1893
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1225 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

CONGRESS OF HYGIENE AND DEMOGRAPHY

... Antiquaries Rooms, and Sir Joseph Fayror delivered v short introductory address. ?? said that about a fourth of all the mortality in England was caused by preventive disease. Draw- ing a comparison between the state of England now and in the Elizabethan ...

Published: Wednesday 12 August 1891
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 720 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE HEALTH OF BELFAST DURING 1896

... the poorer classes, suffering from infectious disease. you need I nor hope to prevent the spread thereof, or lessen I the mortality arising therefrom, I have repeatedly cailed yees- attention to this very important subject, anrd you htave at length decided ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1897
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3660 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE HEALTH OF BELFAST DURING 1899

... has materially lessened the mortality from 1his disease. The importance of saving young children from an attack thereof is very great, for as the ae increases the susceptibility to its in- fection diminishes, and the mortality arising there- from generally ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1900
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3665 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS

... The average number of deaths registered in the second quarter of the ten years 1883-92 was 2,356, equivalent to an annual mortality of 27 1 per 1,000 persons,i thus the rate (26-1) for last quarter was 1 -0 below the average for thae June quarter. The number ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1893
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2891 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPERS

... and in England, with all its boasted pre-eminence. Thedeath-rate testifies that Herod is still at work, Why is the mortality of infants so out of proportion to the population and to that of ?? people? In the majority of oases it is because they are fed ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1898
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 895 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A WALK DOWN FLEET STREET

... humanised milk is fully ste-alised. There I can be no doubt of thle great waste of infant life I which occurs in consequence of the devotion oi f mothers to the fetish of infant foods end of the I uncleanliness of ordinary darymen. Any system i by which pure ...

Published: Monday 27 December 1897
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1764 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

DUBLIN DAY BY DAY

... that the dark cloud of illness and mortality is about to disappear. The deaths last week are 43 over the average number for the cor- responding week of the last ten years, and repre- sent an annual rate of mortality of 32.8 in every thousand of the population ...

Published: Friday 01 December 1899
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1449 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

... inhabitants, send annually to their respective foundling hospitals a mean of 140,000 infants-the vast majorits, it I need hardly be said, illegitimate. The mortality aamong them is 52 par centm-ather more than half I -the cause of this frightful deatlirate ...

Published: Friday 09 July 1897
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1616 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SEEKING DRAMATIC EFFECTS

... infantry an infuriated mob raged outside. When the door was broken down, Burdett was found calmly seated in his library, his infant son upon' his knee, whom he was teaching to read Magna Chata.r' William Pitt, perhaps the greatest of English orators, was ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1895
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1113 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ULSTER INTELLIGENCE

... The jury re- turned a verdict in accordance with this e idence, and added that the mother of the deceased infant v did not wilfully expose the infant, and was driven c to do so through the unkindness of her parents. i STRABANE BOARD OF GUAuiuIAS.-The wveekly ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1896
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1671 | Page: 7 | Tags: News