... the people, well a safeguard for the general health of the public. The death rate for the past month is a heavy one, the mortality amongst children being high in eonseouence of the before mentioned epidemic of measles, and diseases of the respiratory organs ...

... diseaces, two being doe to diarrhena, and one to * scarlet fever. The zymotic mortality is therefore 0-58 per 1000 of population, which is the same rate I ai that of 1893. Among infants under one year of age there were eleven deaths, being in the propor. tion ...

... same period the emigration of natives of these islands amounted to 59,940. So that the actual gain, and this exclusively in infants, was in round figures 64,000. From the point of view of industrial force, indeed, we were apparently weaker at the end of ...

... museuam in connection with thi chair of botany at Liverpool University- College, at a cost of £12,000, has been accepted. The mortality in Bombay has reached an exceed- mgly high figure, jumping en Friday from 282 to 3t0 (the normal rate is 75). Plague accounts ...

... 1000, which was the death-rate from zymatie dis- eases during 1897. The zymotic mortality in Eng- land and Wales during 1898 was 2.22 per IOUL of population. Among infants under one year xof age -there were 659 deaths. ?? was it the ?? of 155 per 1000 ...

... infantry was first used by the Spaniards, in the wards with the Moors, to designate the body-guard of a royal prince, or infante. It was later extended to the entire body of foot soldiers, and finally adopted throughout Europe. IN Beme, Switzerland, a ...

... suminming up said there was in the country at large a tremendous mortality among infants, and this Act had been passed for the more effectual protection of infant le life. Where more than one infant was kept for hire or reward it was required that the place ...

... later years of life, and the general conditions indicate the same common degenerancy incidental to age. The death rate of infants calculated upon those born during the yearj was satisfactory. Generally the sanitary condition of the district called for ...

... TbeTe wva' a big rush of tustomers on Thursday. Don't mis, this Wportauity. 7860td Tns L&rIr MR SAMUEL Ho>rnab.-All that Was mortal of Mr Samuel Holland, formerly Memiber of Parliament for Merionethsbire, was laid to rest it . Caerdeon bharob, near BUrmoutvh ...

... At the Prutest half of these cases most of necessity be empty, but it is a part of the oommithe's sahrime to spniY to every mortal suspected of possessing the slighteet svmnnathy wqth Wtelsth mattsri for suitable relics ; and we do not suppose that the ...

... own pretty rounda- bout way to him first, showering smiles upon and turning their backs contemptuously upon less favoured mortals? He was the darling of the gods, with the purse of Fortunatus in prospective when that stock-broking uncle should see fit ...

... the .- Local Board had accepted a tender for paving before the Dolgelley Infant Board Sobool and other places, and that the proportion for the pro. posed work opposite the Infant School was £6 18s9. It was proposed by Mr John Jones, and seconded by Dr ...