... death-rate is very low, being only 12 . 6 per 1000, that for the United Kingdom is 17.6 per 1000. The Doctor tells us that the mortality among children is much greater than usual, being 126 per 1000, that is, 126 out of every 1000 die before they have attained ...

... to pay £125 compensation for injuries caused a pair of scissors to infant scholar during school hours, the Essex Education Committee has prohibited the use of pointed scissors by infants. There has been a reduction of 172, to 4.226. the number of brewers ...

... the middle of tbi• year. In the predating three wee. the rat.w had been 111. 111. and_ 111. _ _ — lle;mlred by lad creek's mortality, the highest annual death-rater per 1,000 living were: From all causes. 17/ in Middkobrongli. 171 in Newport Mon.) and in ...

... and are cancelling their price lists. With the cooler weather the infantile mortality from diarrhoea and enierit-U is diminishing in Ix>n«)on. Last week the deaths of infant* declined to 227. a> against in the previous week. Carter* in the eastern district ...

... to the chairman, the woman she was a* certain of her abduction by the fairies as that she was alive. After carrying off the infant, site continued, the M wee people indulged in revels and dancing in the wood at Carrowkeel. which were fortunately overheard ...

... ignorance of the nature of food-stuffs and of hygiene generally is responsible for a great deal of preventible mortality, especially among infants. To educate the popular mind an exhibition of hygienic products has just been opened in Devonshire-street, which ...

... pocket a cobbler's knife and thrust it deep into the back of the doctor's neck- The doctor immediately dropped the ground, mortally wounded and unconscious. A number of other inmates, greatly excited at the sight the blood, rushed the side of Sixoff, who ...

... ever get living. The London County Council is concentrating against him, and published a report containing the bills of mortality. There are people under the Medical Officer Health whose business it is to catch flies. During last summer they caught from ...

... the panacea for all ill*. Improved conditions life will certainly bring thorn, larger sphere activity, and reduction of infant mortality—but one wonders will it bring them happiness? has certainly not done so to Englishwomen, and from what one has seen the ...

... eat at a time, making as long an interval between that and the next as the pangs of hunger would render possible. For fire mortal days Dan lay in that awful prison. He had come to his last piece of candle, sad was now suffering great physical anguish, ...

... command the Artillery the ird Division, in the Southern Con hi land. Notwithstanding the fine weather, the Regiatrar-Gencral mortality return for the week ending Saturday last shows that London the deaths from influenza numbered 17, with 10, 7, and 15 deaths ...

... Bourbon•Coburg Engagement. According to a Skrfeh writer the statement that the engagement between Don Alfonso de Bourbon. Infante of Spain. and Prime. , is e , i tek e of Coburg is broken off is without foundation. There are religious difficulties. but ...