... adviser, bot sole medical attendant all-round mechanic, and general ma- •like of (he pleMed tj the ioterating fact that infant mortality the island baa been perceptibly deems- nager of the island's afi people and all that be inf recent years, circumstance ...

... surveys—seems pleased to communicate the interesting fact that infant mortality on the island has been perceptibly decreasing within recent years, a circumstance (though the precise cause of the mortality has hitherto only been a matter of conjecture among medical ...

... under-feeding the more deadly ? Some light on this question is thrown by a report of the Jewish Board of Guardians on infant mortality in the East End of London. The poor Jews are most affectionate parents. They do not beat their children, or starve them ...

... ot-currcil in workhouse • mortality al 17•77, infectious rate bring 19. Both the birth and death rates are higher thmi for the corresponding month of last year, the difference of the latter being die to • great measure to infant ile mortality. MK TEOP.OUN:Y of' ...

... devoted lend of children had to utter,—but we who were received a fund of ireful hints. We learned the startling fact that infant mortality con,,titutes one-fifth of the total death-rate, and that this terrible slaughter , s mainly due to mismanagement, and ...

... aiders and abettors, hate done : the previous year. The statistics reliting enough to give excuse even to a Govern. > infant mortality arc, after all, best men! favourable the interests the evidence to rely upon when the treav- Irish tenantry for dropping ...

... over-feeding or under-feeding die more deadly Some light this question thrown by a report of the Jewish Board of Guardians on infant mortality in the East end London. The poor Jews are mostly affectionate parents. They do not beat their cHldren, or starve them ...

... tious advertisement in the legitimate market, It is for these same reasons that tho as- surers of infant life—or, as the “ Freeman” justly calls it, of infant death—carefully ab- stain from exercising any supervision of the parental treatment of “assured” ...

... look place in the workhouse ; deaths ot infants momli- ..Id and under, and 6 deaths from in feet bus diseases. The deaths from infectious di.sca.-ea being from diarrhoea and 1 from whoopingcough. The mortality calculated on foregoing figures gives total ...

... account. for ' , high mortality from that disease. number of births registered for the four weeks vas 151, or j 79 males and 72 females. The birth rate stands at 26.96. viz., 13.63 for nudes and 12.42 for females. The mortality calculated on the number ...

... that took ola and the workhouse, 20 deaths of infants 12 months’ disease, the deaths from infectious under, and 6 deaths from infectious disease ing five from diarrhea, and one from whooping The mortality calculated on the a .total ratio of 17 25 1,000 ...

... Brady, went on the 9th of the present month to the house, and discovered a parcel of clothing. containing the dead body of an infant, which sloe was trying to conceal. She stated the child was born dead. She asked the police to take pity upon hernot to say ...