... answered. TENSFELDT Hair Specialist & Wigmaker, 122 Princes Street. EDINBURGH. Infantile Mortality —^— Infected milk is the chief cause of the high death-rate of infants in summer. The lledica*Officer of Health for the City London bis report for p. 37, remark*: ...

... INDICTMENT OF HAWICK. A DEFENCE OF VACCINATION. A HARVEST OF DISEASE, DISFIGURE MENT, AND DEATHPREBAGED. GROWING INFANTILE MORTALITY. The report 1912, by Dr MoKellar, Kelso, the Medical Officer of Health for the burgh Hawick, has just been issued. He says ...

... done to prevent this appalling waste of infant life and of potential manhood and womanhood? In the first place, the entire environment of most of these mothers and children must be altered and improved. The infant death-rate was highest where the population ...

... pupils, and songs, My Khaki Daddy and want to be a Soldier, by, several of the infant and junior boys. The Spirit of the Wood was enacted by • number of the infant and junior girls. A number of happy children are spending a holiday in the woods ...

... such unscientific and dangerous legislation. The Reports issued by the Public Health Committee of the Burgh on infantile mortality during the past 2 or 3 years have been very interesting and instructive; but, I must confess, that the effect they have had ...

... most important questions which caused thought to all who had the welfare of the country at heart, was that of infantile mortality. Was Coun pulsory on all, but they were beginning to realise that health of far more import ance than even education. One ...

... preaeot, there is I.AMBHiAIII.B WANTAGE Ol INFANT LIFE all over the country, and the Burgh of Hawick is not without responsibility in this matter. If the birth-rate continues to dimioieb, and if the infantile mortality rate is not diminished, the want” will ...

... the present time it 620—a reduction 82 per cent. The decline in drunkenness has been acoompanied a fall in sickness and mortality from alcoholic excess, which is almost precisely what the statisticians among you would have told you to expect. Cases of ...

... deaths—an average per week. ' The heavy mortality has not been associated with any special locality, nor has it been attributable to any epidemic or prevailing complaint. All ages, too, have had pay toU—from the infant of 0 hours to the patriarch of years ...

... Anderson, Arklelon, on the life and poetical works of William Knox, author of the famous poem beginning— O why should the spirit mortal proud?” Mr W. R. Elliot presided over audience which, considering the stormy weather and the amount of illness alunit, was ...

... way homeward?. After a Patriotic Tabk-u, Tb* Miles, former pupils, there were •onyr*. ■' W»M - unil •• I want Soldier,” infant and junior hoys. Next came KampeklUUtkln'' by *eniorwipaa being very much need of frold. King send- lor the miller'b •laughter ...

... Marseillaise” and “Rule Ilritannia” ; infants’ song. “The Dancing Bear”; recitations, “Time to to bod” and “Daddy’a Sentinel” ; Scouts’ song, “Be Prepared” ; dance, “ Swedish Scholtiecbe ; recitation. “ A Fellow’s Mother”; infants’ duet, “Fairy Song”; Girl Guides ...