... still taking place than in our own burgh, but touch still requires to be done. Why should we wait for centuries until the infant mortality is a district is per cent and repented attacks of fever and cholera compel the community to look after its eatety ? Should ...

... been. This reminds us that it was only the other day we noticed that the Norwich Town Council, owing to the excessive infant mortality, decided to appoint a lady sanitary inspector whose duties would be to visit the homes of the poorest to give advice ...

... eliding May 24th. But low though the mortality was last week, it would have been almost a point lower lad not an Edinburgh man come down to the Docks and drowned himself. Taking it at 4.6, however, we have a rate of mortality •which must be very gratifying ...

... children of the town has so borne itself in upon him that he uses his pen to try and lessen the sad mortality. He says This subject of infantile mortality is a vexing one, and I am sorry to say Leith shows a very high death-rate amongst children under one ...

... that was with regard to the high rate of infantile mortality. Out of 97 deaths in the burgh during October, no fewer than 38 were of children under five years of age, of which, again, 28 were infants under one year. It was the duty of the Corporation ...

... THE INFANTILE MORTALITY (By Win. Roberts.)n, .D ,D.P. H Met lie n I Officer of H.hlth.) At this time of year, wht t Summer diarrhea is prevalent, it will not out of place to 'petition one or two facts 'aid may serve ;lei practical guides to those are ...

... Green. HIGH MORTALITY AMONG LEITH INFANTS. In a report to the Public Health Committee, Dr Robertson, Medical Officer of Health, calls attention to the large number of deaths from diarrhoea amongst infants in the town. He says:— This mortality has, during ...

... infantile mortality of the large towns in Scotland. The Medical Officer of Health had printed lately a small pamphlet on infant feeding. The speaker quoted from iii, pamphlet as follows:— Pure cows' milk is far too strong for the diet of an infant. It must ...

... very important question of infantile mortality, we threw out a suggestion which appeared to us to be worthy of the serious consideration of the Local Authority. It is incontrovertible that a big percentage of the infant death-rate is due to the ignorance ...

... will fell, At teat, tar oil, at kW, to all, And ovary winter change to spring. So runs my tale, but what am I! An Infant crrog the An infant crying for more light, And with no language a cry. Then read the suggestive and trenchant remarks that Mr Stewart ...

... now and then a child is born with a peculiarly slow or fast pulse, and the very case in band may be of that peculiarity. An infant's pulse is 140; a child of seven, about 80; end from twenty to sixty years, is 70 beats a minute, declining at four ecove ...

... proceedthe death rate among infants is higher in ings passed off with the utmost smoothness, Leith than in the other large towns, but figures and were brought to a close in time-honoured prove this to be a mistake. The mortality is fashion. The purveying ...