... Remember that this body is wellknown for its abstemiousness, and for the guarded lives of its members. Inclusive of their infant mortality the average age they attain is sixty-one years, or about half as long again as the average of a generation of the whole ...

... Jewish mothers bestow on their offspring in the early period of their existence, and so safeguard against any appreciable infant mortality. A second cause is the Temperance and sobriety of the Jew. A correspondent writes to the Drink in the Methodist Times ...

... interesting details of his observations on the influence of maternal inebriety alone upon infant mortality—that is, apart from incidental neglect and cruelty to the infants. His inquiries were made in respect to a series of female drunkards in the Liverpool ...

... explanation which is usually offered is that the recent improvement in the conditions of life has enabled a greater proportion of infants and children of abnormally weak constitution, to live longer than such children did formerly—has, in fact, carried them through ...