... 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 Charts. William Pitt, perhaps the greatest of English orators, was ...

... perished in childhood, have had their lives prolonged to a later period; and that then these lives go to swell the rate of mortality of this later date. But, than, is that the whole case? In my letter I set forth a number of changes which were calculated ...

... tell of the long hours many of these infants spent in cold, dark, foodless and fireless rooms, waiting in vain for parents who were spending their substance in the public-home. his recipe to reduce the rate of mortality amongst children was to produce a ...

... explanation which is usually offered is that the recent improvement in the conditions of life has enabled a greater proportion of infants and children of abnormally weak constitution, to live longer than such children did formerly—has, in fact, carried them through ...

... death, when it should be a verdict of manslaughter. He urged the necessity for a reform of the laws, so as to reduce mortality among infants: compulsory provision of baths to all new dwelling-houses, the granting to local authorities of the power to acquire ...

... 99, or 9.28 per cent. The rate of mortality would have been, as usually, much lower but for epidemics of diarrlicea and measles in the Chldren's Ward, in which, despite the greatest possible care, the deaths of infants under one year were 20, out of 61 ...

... only. Midwives also can get drunk. From the evidence of a constable at an East End inquity last week into the death of an infant, it appeared that he was called to the house, and found the midwife (titling in a chair speechless drunk. Witness advised ...

... Good Dies. -There is nothing, no nothing, innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in its cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those who loved it, and play its part through ...

... Reigate. Miss Frances E. Willard was one of the party, The medical officer of Leek, drawing attention to the heavy mortality among infants in Staffordshire, says the most important factor is strong drink. Women's practice of taking intoxicating drink has ...

... that was mortal. staring straight before him, his lips moving, they seemed to frame again and again Curse them! Curse thorn! CH APT ER VI. than once with clasped, almost clenched, hands, and agonised countenance, as if wrestling with a mortal woe. At ...

... platf it had so long occupied—to take infinite in the cause like Maxtor Wilfrid Lawson and Master James Raper, and teach their infant steps to go in the right way, and assure them that allocatiou does not mean compensation. (Laughter.) He wished to say ...