... a teaspoonful of boiling water. With this punch the infant's cries arc stilled- occasionally for ever. Dr. Jones gives a conspicuous place to density of population as a cause of infant mortality. The model dwvelliags, that huge block of buildings ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. 0 . % ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION. Yesterday evening Dr D Edgar Flinn, F R C S, Dip. Pub. .Health, lectured in the Leinster Lecture HalL, Molesworth street, on the subject of Child Mortality: its Causes and Prevention, before the members ...

... delicacy of dal infants, and their readier buecul;ftlbility to disease from his the cecas which increase the Mortality af adults, it Opt reams that there niust still be other causes, netoporating in the case of adults, to swell the mortality in these lot ...

... the majority of the audience being ladies. Dr. HUSBAND, of York, read a paper on ' Infant Mortality, its Canse and Remedy. In the outset he spoke of infant mortality as robbing the couutry of that which would have proved a source of wealth. He thon proceeded ...

... contLuons. The high infant mortality is not necessary, for it varies. In the higher and professional classes the death rate is so comparatively low that if the general death rate of London last year had been similar, the lives of 10,340 infants would have been ...

... of hygiene and the prevention of infant mortality were the other topics that Qccupied the attention of the ladies' section of the Congress. One figure mentioned by Miss Isabel Smith on the subject of infant mortality is little less --a appalling. While ...

... few weeks, become a very important matter in COmeerluenr of cases of fever having been so cause, e icese its effect on infant mortality. Tpr admirable portrait of Mr. J. S. fill, which I Mr. Watts has painted for Sir Charles Dilke, and -which Mr. Mill sat ...

... relating to the nursery and No 2 departmnents, it is stated that the infant mortality hiz besaq 8 pe8 nt pe* annum for some years past. The conclusion wa:. arrived at in this ?? numbsr of infants located ian these departmenta, §0: average ?? wf deaths per annum ...

... country districts. Real infant mortality may be mea- euredby its proportioiltobirtheregietered; toeach lO births in 1870 16 deafhs of infants under one I ear of age occurred (the percentage was 17.4 among male and l4'5 !among female infants). Among obildren ...

... healthier than London, if the ' svearge of tte census figures be taken; but the infant mortality Is enormous, not less thain 58.8 per cent upon the mortality of all ages. The mortality amongst children is infduenced by other conditloni besides thoae of simple ...

... the report of the sub-committee wasadopted, STARCH POISONING has been said, on good autho- rity, to bathe main causeof infant mortality. No farinaceois food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... iomeaus slaughtered their infant r children -we are sacrificing, not alone children, but youths and maidens, and men - and women in ; their prime. Few of our population live out aI their days. In regard to the escessive infant mortality - of modern life it ...