... iomeaus slaughtered their infant r children -we are sacrificing, not alone children, but youths and maidens, and men - and women in ; their prime. Few of our population live out aI their days. In regard to the escessive infant mortality - of modern life it ...

... favour- ably with those of former yeams. 1or tile 6rat tinae si3!ee 1880 the births eseeeded the leatih, whilit Ole infant mortality seas the lowest, Q while there is a record repreaenting a rate of 96 pcr 1,00 birtlii. the everage rate for the town ...

... were of children under 1 year old: and 5,745, or 58-5 per cent., were of per- sons aged 60 years and upwards. The-deaths of infants under 1 year old are equal to 86-9 per 1,000 of. vhe- births registered. In the province of Leinster the number of deaths ...

... half-past three this morning at the Marble Palate, Potsdam. where her Majesty was safely deiivsrer of a daughter. Both mother and infant are doing well. CEN TRAL AFRICA. BEaLiw, TUESDAY XoiGHr.-The Standard Cor- respondent ?? C-erman naval lientecana sent by ...

... apprr Mary Delaney pleaded guilty to gross neg and maltreatment of an infant three months given her to nurse. It transpired that the conscientious nurse had insured the life of the infant, and that shortly afterwards died. The found it difficult to distinguish ...

... they are damned into it, were it not for the fact, we may add, that, wbilst the mortality among children where proper care is exercised is only 8 per zent.,the mortality among the children of the intemperate is 70 per cent. Still, the remain- ing 30 per ...

... only II per cent, consisting of infants, the children in the first class counting 8 per cent. more. H~ero, then, is the radical difference between the two classes of schools. The one teaches to a largre extent infants and very young children ; the other ...

... cent, were of children under 1 !year old; and 9,300, or 43-3 per cent, were of persons aged 60 and upwards. Ths deaths of infants under 1 year old are equal to 108-8 per 1,000 of the births registered. In the ! provillce of Leinster the number of deaths ...

... ofl its kind in A merica, was burned down shortly after midnight on Thursda~y. The dames broke out underneath the wrard for infants and mothers, and all the wvards soon presented a scene of the w~ildest con- fusion, the ianmates rushing to the windowvs and ...

... while the total number of victims ,of shunting in all its! forms was 160 kilied land 1,671 injured. This really appalli~g mortality is surely re- ducible by the utroduction of fresher patentsto secure a' safe railway working. Mr Harford in his repc rt gives ...

... mastered opened up an avenue to a new world. Fast friendships have been not only formed with the living, but with the im- mortal dead. We are inspired by their aims, en- couraged by their success. We, the heirs of ?? the ages, reap the accumulated wealth ...

... honorary secretaries. ai Dr. Warts and fir. O'Neill-Caprlauee)- p to whose exertions it is very largely due e that that little infant of three years old a was such a very healthy body. They had been b extremely fortunate ever since the society Corn- h menced ...