... abstracts of the marriages, births, and deaths, registered in Jamaica during the last officill year. In view of the high infant mortality rates, the natural increase of population is very satisfactory. We observe that the natural increase or excess of births ...

... upos she whole satisfactory, the rate of increase would have been very much greater bat for the alarmingly large rata of infant mortality. ...

... rresponiliiiß period The death rate shows a reditetion of ,l twist ei points over the corresponding month in previous ye:tr. Infant mortality still claims enoruions per eentage of he death rate .ind represents ono third of the total death rate. The followi !ig ...

... figures having been 111 lo;rths to 144 deaths. The first five months of the present year Lave been exceptionally i healthy. Infant mortality, however, always large, has been eaceedingly so in the year just closed,the deaths of children under five years of age ...

... same paper comments at lams length on the excessive infant mortality of of they Colony. It says : We publish in this issue a valuable- and interesting contribution on the question of infantile mortality in the colony, and espeeially in Georgetown The evil ...

... 1 year 19 deaths, of 1 year 6, 2 years 2, 3 years 2, thus showing how continuously large is infant mortality in our midst as compared to the general mortality of the city Besides these, of the total deaths 9 occurred in the Public Hospital, 5 in the Lnnatio ...

... deaths for the month of February published by the Registrar General on the 6th instant shows a substantial reduction in mortality as compared with the previous month and the corresponding period in 1892. The deaths during the past month numbered 91 which ...

... in the mortality due to liver sod stomach diseases, smd plhatisia also shows- a marked lucre:me over the previous mouth. The mortality due to febrile causes was low,ooly fi vo cases being set down under that, head, but among children and Infants tbe death ...

... patients who may come under their care in the correct management or proper treatment of infants. Dr. Grabhamis quite right in attributing the excessive infantile mortality which is a disgrace to the Island, in a large degree, to neglect and improper feeding ...

... here was: 320 males and 128 females of 12 years and upwards; 11 boys and 12 girls under 12 years; acid 13 infants ; total 484! souls. The mortality amongst immigrants in the Colony for the twelve months was: 29 adults and 11 children; the birth* numbered ...

... skilled in stiff calculations have computed that, on the supposition that the present rate of mortality is fairly wiiintaiued, it is not impossible that an infant of 1894 may live to see the completion of the undertaking somewhere in the closing decades ...

... cemetery received many funerals, all of the poorer classes to jade by the respectable bat humble hearses. The baud biers for infants were nunaerous. I promenaded through the opeu air rag fair, where the chiffonniers vead after sorting their best night finds: ...