... children. I know there are exceptions, but we are now dealing with the big majority and those living far from the cities. Infant Mortality.— This is no news to those who live in this country and know how the Boers live. Nor are the reasons far to seek. The ...

... spoken to softly. De. MARTIN, Medical Officer of Health for the Gorton District of Manchester, commenting on the very high infant mortality, says that each succeeding year confirms his observations that the annual epidemic of diarrhoea and typhoid is connected ...

... Bowl of Trade on the liaising accidents of last year, Mr. Le NOVO Foster oomasents on the singular fact that the rate of mortality from accidents was higher in quarries than in ooliisiies. The year 1900 was remarkably free from any great mining disaster ...

... Russia has bestowed the name of Nikita upon his nephew, the infant son of the Grand Duchess Xenia and the Grand Duke Alexander Michailovitch. An Imperial ukase has been issued conferring on the infant all the titles he has a right to use as being, through ...

... victory—Anna snatched the infant to her breast, and covered it with frantic kisses. But her desperate excitement was attended with its inevitable effect. The next instant she fell back upon the pillow, rigid. dead ! still in her mortal agony, straining the ...