... information which would be obtained by means of the question would be of infinite velue in determining the causes of infant mortality and imbecility. There was no desire to be inquisitorial. The Statistical Society and the Society of Medical Officers ...

... of Lady- smith. At a meeting of the Glasgow Town Council on Monday a magistrate called attention to the extraordinary infant mortality in the city. This slaughter of the innocents, he said, was such as called for immediate remedy. For the past fortnight ...

... e estimates that one-third of the children die before they are three years old and that one of the leading causes of infant mortality is impure milk, which has also been known to have been the carrier of the germs of typhoid and diphtheria. For some time ...

... for the building of garden city houses and Mr. Chance has promised to help them in every way possible. 8o high is the infant mortality in Brierley Hill that at a meeting of the Urban Council it was decided to write to the Staffordshire Council and ask ...

... dairy cows is the chief vehicle. Infants naturally run most risk, and anything done to safeguard the consumers of milk ought to have as onme of its most immediate and important results the reduction of infant mortality. In this connection we are interested ...

... remarkable. No one who has even cursorily studied the question professes that pure milk is the only requirement for a low infant mortality. But it is now beyond question that dirty milk and diseased milk are the chief cause of children’s deaths. In the boreugh ...

... Taboo-street, are yet familiar enough not to create any particular sensa- tion. Infant mortality rules high in the street, and the inquests are, for the most part, upon infants who have died without medical aid having been called in— more or less suddenly ...

... traditional ?”h“is of feeding infants, by which o Wany generations past the mzllu ml‘lion has been very suc Iy P down anq life-long dzm“ made. ol ingtitution of where lrh“’ of the poorest classes may 'h:ll‘ 'Tir infants with ]::foct l:f:fiy * they themselves ...

... Congress at Glasgow to-day Dr. C. Templeman said i:gmt mortality was duc to ipsanitary surroundings, drunkenness and deficient nacural feeding. He condemned early marriages as productive of immature infants. ...

... lately been largely occupying the ttention of municipal anthorities in all porte of the United Kingdoin. The ratic of mortality among infants is so great that it would be well if practical ad- For GUIDE BOOES, MAPS, axp LOCAw VIEWS: Guerasey Press Statieceey ...

... information respecting the famous siege, stating, inter alia, that the mortality amongst European children was at the rate of 500 per 1,000 born white. Almost all the coloured infants born, died. Mr. Armstrong, financial adviser to Lord Kitchener, advocated ...

... worthless quest. And weary mortals find their rest * At Eventide. The nightingale with saddened zest, Hth sung its song, a song tmce blest ; MM_g of love. What else is beet At Eventide!' The little child in cradle white, With infant love hath said Good night ...