... of prisons for the criminals that it creates. And to this picture may be added diminution of the birth-rate, increased infant mortality, and a swelling of the number of idiots and cripples, children of drunkards, wrecks of the race and burdens on the community; ...

... certain fsct that roost of the seabirds nesting along the have been peculiarly backward. There also b-en a good desl infant mortality among those kinds that have the habit of leading their young to the sea soon they are hatched. If the seas are heavy ...

... practice of the Bedaween, who roll their infants in the Lurniog sun at height of noon, that may become hardy sons of the desert ! But the Aleuts have no hygienic @ iations : they do not intend that the infant mortality be low. And they have a very ictical ...

... considering that Huddersfield the infant mortality figure for the first six months of 1007 was lower by 22 per cent, than the seventy six great towns. During the third quarter of the year, in the seventy-six towns the infant mortality figure was 110, in Huddersfield ...

... the only real training to enable girls to become good wives and mothers, and its unpopularity was responsible for high infant mortality, impaired physique, and perverted development. Of the increase of insanity Dr. Jones had no doubt that a large proportion ...

... 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) ...

... Hear anv Infant Mortatiry. While we have been comp! bitterly of the rainy weather in the No Scotland, the health of England has st from the excessive heat. The return of temperature in London has already h effect in diminishing infant mortality. was a decided ...

... 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 ...

... that they should deal with the various districts in the town in which the rate of mortality was the greatest. At the time the proposal was made they had an infant mortality return for the various districts, in which the Merkinch figured with 201.9 per thousand ...

... t-.0. would find fair crop of cases if they made systematic inspection of their children. As is there is rather a high infant mortality among them, and that keeps their numbers stationary. The Northern tinker tribes appear quite a different race, and the ...