... the oonoomitsnts of overcrowded and congested states of the population, viz., a high general death rate, a lamentable infant mortality, and, of courae, condition of gross insanitatiou in the streets.” ...

... OF THE 1105211/RN Sra,—Mr John Sutherland, in your last issue, has asked for some information on these camps and the infant mortality. Well, in the first place, let me refer him to Miss Hobhouse's verified statements about the awful sad state of these ...

... the district, giving the total of 359 and a death- aud 15°44 in 1906. rate of 17°68, as compared with 18°36 in 1907, Infant Mortality—25 children under one of age died durin the year, giving an infantile (a eaths under one mortslity figure 1000 births) ...

... chief causes of infant mortality alludes to under the following beads:— 1, Premature birth : 2, hereditary weakness; 3. insanitary surroundings ; improper feediogand defective nursing; 5, defective clothing and exposure to cold, and 6, infant life insurancewhich ...

... Death has be en busy in our midst during the ear. An epidemic o! ff measles led to a remark- one month to | ably heavy infant mortality, er thousand of the | an onprecedented figure p who were well population. Several citizens, known io the pub! lic and ...

... figures. It was published on Saturday, price is lid. There have been nearly 6000 deaths in two months. In October last the infant mortality amounted to '2635, in November to 2271. I need not enlarge. These awfully high figures are eloquent in themselves. Mr ...

... situation and promote mmmit which will for ever remove a standing dis- ] gtacs'to people and proprietors alike. Otherwise infant mortality will ecotinne; woman .will langnish and din untimely deaths; schools will ha every now and again closed to prevent the ...

... for father and mother, will at once seen that the remaining two is i»o mors than safficieot Iwldnoc the naturally by infant mortality, cripples, l«f •>U3, and otheia that are physically weak. That I -wrriago mart therefoie lie dictate of • those, thaicfore ...

... surveys—seems pleased to communicate the interesting fact that infant mortality on the island has been perceptibly decreasing within recent years, circumstance (though the precise cause of the mortality hitherto has only been a matter of conjecture among medical ...

... if they had been Wo in wedlock. Bring illegitimates their death-rate is 37. 20 per 1,000 therefore represents the extra mortality bastards. Of these I,OSO lahies, who this year would have lived if they had had legal fathers, but who will all in their ...

... which was doing its bist to attract our attention, it tusued out to be an Arab dhow, having on board siz or more balf-oaked mortale in the sorrowful plight of being without bread or water, It was a sight long to be remembered, when our majectic steamer pulled ...

... Blurray's nitereet in the scholars inert when they entered the infant room, and never lett them till they were through the standards. My acquaintance with them airily hegira when they leave the infant room to enter upon the aware difficult work of the standards ...