... INFANT MORTALITY. A case which throws much light on the cause of infant mortality in France has just oome before the Assises of the Ariege. Six persons—three men and three women—were accused of forgery and swind' ling in .putting ohildrsn out to nurse ...

... over of tl milk supply, m deficiency Ae tention is also drawn to the enor- parts of the town and throughout the mous infant mortality, which is mainly due to the ignorant and su arious other dan; practices of the native lying-in room. Pres to the public ...

... Gerald Codrington, where he remains in a critical state. Infant Mortality. Dr. M'lntosh, medical omcer, reported to the rural sanitary authority, Chesterfield, on Saturday last, that the infant mortality for the fortnight was 55 per cent. The most glaring ...

... at ahigher price, paying the excise levi- punt er the new law. A capital of 30,000,000m. is In of the hi igh rate of infant mortality within nthe W the Willesden district, the Local Board have e tuted a at the Marylebone police- court, against two or ...

... breakfast is attended with evils on which those conversant with factory life are almost as unanimous as on the question of infant mortality. Anyone who will take the trouble of rising on a winter morning to see the work-people trooping to the mill, often from ...

... some of the servants on that line. Infant Mortality France. —In a recent communication to the Conseil-General of the Scine-et- Oise, the Prefect of Versailles states that in that department the mortality of infants is from 60 to 70 per 100. A large number ...

... than 2,000,000 persons of the trorking classes per annum, or 63.5 per oent. in excess the relative mortality of Great Britain. This excessive rate of mortality is produced principally the loss of children under the age of five, the deathrate of children under ...

... was given. the mortality this month, where a large death-rate The Medical Officer here sent for his books, and on analysing the month's figures it was found that able to the ly three of the infant deaths were directly trace- Mr. Robertson : “Well, we ...

... down the river in a merchant ship on his first voyage. Mortality among Infants the East-bnd.—The deaths of young children under one year in Whitechapel are as many as 24.7 of the total mortality, having been as high as 40.2 per cent, in Spitalfields, ...

... alleged, killed him. Suffocation of Infants.—Four inquests have been held consecutively by Dr. Hardwicke on the bodies of infants, who were smothered whilst in bed with their eats. In the case of John Bailsmith, infant son of William Ba-'lsmith, of 21, ...

... the mortality? bes been greater this month than in the previous one. -four deaths have registered as occurring in the town, 18 of them were civilians and 6 belonged to the Military. Only two of the deaths were adults, all the others were infants or children ...

... of sickness, mortality, and invaliding considerable under the of the four preceding years. The deaths were per thousand, and the discharges by invaliding 221. At the stations abroad the most striking points are the high rate of mortality the North American ...