... INFANT MORTALITY RETURN. CRITICISM OF POOR LAW MINORITY REPORT. Local Government Board haa iaraed let urn concerning the mortality among in* fanta bom in Poor Law inatitutionn, which, the Minority Report of the Poor Law Comaiaaiaa aaaerted, is between ...

... been dry, and, with one or two exceptions, chilly enough to make fire pleaaant and necessary. Infant Mortality. is well-known fact that the infant mortality Auatralia has been abnormally high, and apito increasing knowledge in the treatment of children ...

... Fortrosc and BfacK Isle Infantile Mortality is Avoch. -Or Mackenzie, Medical Officer of Health for Avoch, in his annual report says The infant mortality continues high in the village of Avoch, one-fourth of the deaths were of children under two years ...

... cause or cure [We respectfully invite questions on all subject* of interest agriculturists.] Odds and Ends. Infant Mortality. —The rat© infant mortality, in round numbers; -5,000,000 babes never live long enough to talk, 5,000,000 more never have chance to ...

... permitted to do so. Dr Dendal Franks, the Hon. Consulting Surgeon to His Majesty’s Forces, sums up the situation as regards infant mortality follows:— “ The high death-rate among the children, I would like to emphasise again, is in no way due to want of care ...

... Highland Orphanage •t Inverness, and good many in future will be boarded out under the various inspectors’ supervision. The infant mortality remains a serious problem, and results largely, I feel sure from the ignorance of mothers. Unintentional cruelty it is ...

... them, has been checked and almost exterminated voluntary vaccination. The mortality of Tokio, vast city which covers 100 suuare miles ground, is only per 1000. The infant mortality is high, owing to the too early exposure of now-bom children. It is not ...

... A PERFECT FOOD FOR CHILDREN AND INFANTS. •• Having carefnlly tried Maolean’e MBS time in an practice, I hare pleasure in elating that it to one of the most nntritiou of ail the farinaceous articles of dtot.”-THonae R. Rohalmok, M. 8., FJB.C.P. Ed. 3 ...

... statistic that “whereas hundred and fifty babies every thousand die annually who presumably have mothers care, the mortality among infants whose mothers are occupied from home during the day' at the increased rate of hundred and ninety-live per thousand ...

... showing an unusually high mortality of in 10,000 living. In tho Lewis district the general mortality reaches rate of 139, while the births show a rat© 251, the first being low in and the second high in Barvas. The infantile mortality in the Lewis nearly one-ninth ...

... as is the frightful mortality amongst infants in the Lews and South- Western, and still more in the Black Isle districts.” In regard to this last matter these tables reveal great disparity in the percentage of infantile mortality in different districts ...

... the county. As usual, the information is of an exhaustive character, and the statistical particulars appended dealing with mortality in the county are of special interest and importance. Summarising the vital statistics Dr Bruce says: The population of the ...