... dwellers in larger rowns.-Mx. R3berts drew attention to the system whiui is being pursued in St. Helens towards providing infants with purified miak, end he suggested tha,t the exarnple of that borough should be copied by Liverpool.-Dr. Rligh gave hlis ...

... 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 ...

... poisonous properties, and it is these Toxins, as they are named in the milk, which are the cause of -the mortality which thus besets infant life in the hot season of the year. Bow all-important it must be for every mother to know how to prevent this ...

... 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 ...

... decreasing mortality as age in- creases, thus: Under one year, 184.9; under two years, 38.9; under three.years, 11.9; under four years, 11.5; under five years, 9.1; total under ?? years,-52.1. An lexamination of the causes of deaths in infants showve that ...

... this will in the fut=re have a notice- D able effect in reducing the death rate of the Pm city, at least in regard to infant mortality,m *hich is at present exceedingly high. Already a sýnsem of sterilizing milk is being success- S. fuly worked in St. ...

... weekly contributions are made to the Relief Funds. THE PUBLIC HEALTI. The Reifstrar.General reports that the annual rate of mortality in 33 great towns of England and Wales last week averaged 22-8 per 1000. The rate in Birkenhead was 24, Birmingham 22. Blackburn ...

... respectively of 1S98 and 14'04 per 1,600 per annum. With the exception of two fatal cases of whoopin,-cough in infants there has been no mortality from zymotic disease. Two deaths ha-ebeenregistered from influenza, which appears to have been very prevalent ...

... Leamington 19.5. Among the 263 deaths last quarter in Oxford there were in- cluded 4.2 of infants under one year of age, and 124 of persons aged upwards of 60 years. The infant deaths were in the proportion of 130 per 1.000 births registered, as against 95 per ...

... death rate of corresponding week for d ten years ?? .17.53 r Death rate of enrrespondingweekcf last year, 10.57 Pate of mortality from zynsotic diseases ?? 3.04 Died under one year old ?? 25 S Died aged 60 and upwards ? 45 0 ?? 1) C 11 ?f Whooping cough ...

... issue of the heroic defence by 3 the gallant Baden-lPowell and his little company. II doing honour to the memory of their NU- mortal deeds Chinnor put itself in the forefront of tire villp.ges. On Monday evening the whole comnuuuity, supplemented by some ...

... 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, ...