... from phthisis. The report continues— The 'nest marked diminution is the death rate is in infant mortality, under flee years., which is less than cam-half the mortality of the previous year. This proportion holds in the rural districts also. The burgh death ...

... BABY'S HARD LOT. Tea Sanitary Congress just concluded at Liverpool hail under discussion the mortality among infants in relation to female work in factories. Thu statistic* quoted by Dr. Reid, of the Str.fforilshire County Council, show conclusively, ...

... in remitting hock the question as to whether the Notification of Births Act* should adopted. That the death-rate amongst infants is high is admitted, but a considerable amount of doubt prevails as to the propriety of a town like Insyrkess proceeding to ...

... stated that the rate of mortality for the past year is rather high, being nearly 20 per 1000—the exact figures being 19.751 on an estimated population of 2582—while the birth-rate stands at not more than 22. The death-rate of infants is at the rate of 118 ...

... the mortality at different periods of life, under five years of age, that is the infant period. 11.3 deaths were registered as compared with 176 registered in the previous year. It is satisfactory to find this diminution in the infantile mortality, as ...

... health visiting is now in course of being organised. The addresses of 312 infants were sent to the health visitors for visitation. I cannot leave the subject of infantile mortality without referring to the Children's Aot, 1908, or, as it has been called ...

... non-adoption of the Act. The charge in that the mother, of Inverness have lost the art (if that is the correct term) of retrial, infants. The cure, of course, is more regulation. Parente cannot be depended upon to nurture their own Andrea, but they are quite ...

... vote of thanks for his instructive and inspiring address. Poirraosz—The New Year.—The New Year requires no helping hand from mortal man when it crosses the threshold of time, but then. of course, like a stranger, people take it in. Very often it is all the ...

... the mortality of the year intervening, 1897. The infant death rate under five yearn (always an important criterion) is little more than half of 1897. The rate per thousand is also agreeably reduced to 14, as against 23 in 1897. And the mortality from ...

... inflicted upon the people of Skye during the Land Riots that took place in that Island over twenty yea= ago. Mr John Macrae is the infant baby who, it will be remembered, was poieded in its cradle by an Inverness sherif-oacer at Pelmet', in the pariah of Sninort ...

... imams in /mem= are there who, will accept advice famed epos them with& hours of the birth Of a child? Advil* will wet keep an infant warm or nourish it. But kit us look at this matter fair the face. Are there an mothers in Inverness that cannot have either ...

... Mairtown Street on September sth, Margaret Larron, wife of George Fraser. At Urquhart 'load, Aberdeen, on the 6th inst.' the infant soo or Malcolm Morr.con, after a short illneaa At Cottage, Conon•Bridge, on the loth last., Ales. ander Mackenzie, late farm ...