... animal food altogether. The death-rate among both blacks and whites in December was three times the average, and the infant mortality is very high. Privations are beginning to tell, adds the correspondent, and until we get relief in the shape of provisions ...

... the ages of one and five years. In the absence of any epidemic the infant n ortality was too high. The main cause was to re found in tbe character of the houses in ■which the infants were born Jmd died. They were hcuies fauitly in construction and design ...

... same period the emigration of natives of these islands amounted to 59,940. So that the actual gain, and this exclusively in infants, was in round figures 64,000. From the point of view of industrial force, indeed, we were apparently weaker at the end of ...

... suminming up said there was in the country at large a tremendous mortality among infants, and this Act had been passed for the more effectual protection of infant le life. Where more than one infant was kept for hire or reward it was required that the place ...