... area in qu tion it was 40.7 per 1,000. (Scnsition.l Garden row had a popnlation of 407, a death-rate of 42.2. and an infant mortality of 55.5 per cent., while the figures for RoV-sy-treot were 218, 32.5, and 53.1 per cent: Honduras-street. 217. 40.5, ...

... iwho neglected to sen1 their children to school, kept them unclean. &c. Dr. Hopne, of Liverpcol, opened a discuss or on Infant Mortality. He advocated reaular cieazn.ng good bouse accommodation, the employment of fpmi.je m:pectors. and the provisiou of ...

... or over the ago of forty-five, and the tdeath-rate of infants under one yvar worked out at tSl1.1 per 1,000 white, atud 912.7 per q1.00 Oolouredt Dr. Stoney attributes the high infant mortality to the lac3 of milk, the tnatural food of very young children ...

... death-rate of 265 per thousand children under one year. He considered that overcrowding was the principal cause of the high infant mortality. There was some of it due to neglect he was aware, but there would be less neglect were Mbe houses of the working classes ...

... vearlv volumes of those well-known magazines, The Friendlv Visitor, 'The Band of Hope Reriec~w, The F 0amily Friend,' The Infants' Magai-ne. and The Cnildren's Friend, are now out. Capital Christmas ?? (S. W. Partrdge). rne Centuirv. (Macmaillan.) The ...

... to die at sixty rather than abandon corsets and live till she was seventy ? Would not an alderman rather shnifle off this mortal coil at i fifty than give np his turtle and drag out a ( melancholy and soupless oxistence ? When do E we begin to get old ...

... that the time has come when it is no lro£ger rec-ssary to retain, upon the Statute Book I - law making the vaccination of infants comnpul. sory. The erby resolutions declared that medi a opirion -was no longer unanimnous as to the effect of val naion, ...

... stand. The death-rate is fifteen in a thousand above the average of the parish, and double the average of London. The mortality of infants is threo to oue as compared with the rest of Clerken- well. This is an appalling state of things for which. some remedy ...

... hurse-s, has j)t :Single c~csse in their stables, For every two births in London last week there were three deaths. and the mortality was at the abnornal rnate of S3.21 per annum. In the dret week in October tht, deaths in the. metropolitan area aggregated ...

... London, and also below last week's average for the thirty-three great towns. There was a slight increase of mortality from measles among infants, the aggregate of 68 deaths being the highest total reached under that heading for a month; but fatal cases ...

... making, with the interim dividend paid in January, 44 per cent. for the whole year. Attention was drawn to the low rate of mortality among the occupiers, namely, 13.96 per 1,000 as against 19.8 for the whole of London. Tbe hoard recommended the election ...

... guide is but a guide to me, what 0 ever his fare or renutinian. The speedy oblivion which follows death is common to all mortals. I I- was not the dead who wavs ill my mind when I 0 wrote, but the living-vastly more important. -A largye sheet of paper ...