... INFANT MORTALITY. 0 . % ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION. Yesterday evening Dr D Edgar Flinn, F R C S, Dip. Pub. .Health, lectured in the Leinster Lecture HalL, Molesworth street, on the subject of Child Mortality: its Causes and Prevention, before the members ...

... held in the Museum, College ?? North, -a paper was read by Surgeon- Major 111-Farland upon. the subject of infant n, insurance and infant mortality. Professor e Byars, M.D., occupied the chair. The subject having been fully disonssed,, the following resolu- ...

... chemists and druggists precribing for children Tvas wrong and ought to be pu't a stop to. This child was suftering from a mortal disease and should have been sent te nospital, u-here there might have been some chance of its life being saved. Diseases ...

... u-ere children under l yeair old; and 8,5n9O or 39-3 per cent., were of pernont aged 611 years and upwards. The deaths of infants , under 1 year old are equal to 97-9 per 1.006 of the births registered. In the province of heinster the number of deaths ...

... far preferable to the beer or ,vile tea which is the beverage of the English infant; for nowhere in a town is ,;milk to be bought.' The advantage is with the English infant now, and the pea- sants of that day did not pay £92 10s a year on the average ...

... baptismr meant imimersion, and titin infant baptis was onilv a permicssion. He .aid that an adnlt upon beirng baptised a hen snaking an open proffession and con- fe. ...

... deaths, which last week amounted to 164, are 29 under the average for the last ten years, and repre. sent an annual rate of mortallity of 19-7 ia | every 1,000of the population. The number of adeaths from zymatic diseases ragistered dur. ing last week is ...

... reports of meetcings oE the U~nited Trades Coioncil andS the Ulster Medical SO iety. at which the question of infiant mortality cn.; infant inturance wa:s full1y di'cussed a~nd resoclatirons passed thlere-on. ?? fol-| lottingr letter, wshich has been handed ...

... ill-timed discus- sion. For Mr. Taylor really hits the right nail on r the head. a Were the Church of Ireland only to give up s infant baptism, She might win over the Baptists s abolish ministerial ordination, and the Plymouth Brethren might join us ; surrender ...

... .on ines and b -penalties could, in the existin careum t stances, carry it. With the condemtition . of the employment of infants and thehalf I time system in vogue in the factory towns 4 there will be mnore agreement.: In few- countries in the worldj ...

... is a remarkable proof of this. Bat so far the statistics of the loun treatment seem decidedly encouraging. In Berlin the mortality vas reduced to fourteen per cent, and in Peris to twenty-four per cent, while among untreated ptaients it is sixty- three ...

... allegiance or taxing a province. If theyvbatkew it neither Herod, who p-at the H~olyr IPocents to death, thinking- to destroy the infant King of the -ews, nor Pilate, who condene- H lim to die after being told that His Kingdom was not t' t d~ 'world, bad: wyothlng ...