... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... spread the disease, and the milk is the more usual source of infection. To this must be attributed the fact that the infant mortality from consumption has not decreased in at all the same proportion as the adult mor- tahty. It. is therefore plain that ...

... the teatlnusansof ohecking the crime and eni° the cause of de.iof young children; the tnesa2 for Freventing exce-sive infant mortality, ille Wges. some plan for the care and rearing i~~hit., Zte bildrenother thau the present work-I ...

... tio0 of som^e hygienic authorities be cor- tc Sot i oeving in a great measure to the cc c ya~ ef the milk supplied that infant mortality cc ra iste '-Iigh these figures have a specials atwl orte citizens, and it cannot but be a. raotrr ormuch regret that ...

... against 96 in March, 1864, of which 70 were due to the latter malady. Convulsions, which, cause the greatest amount of infant mortality, and which are mainly excited by aerial impurities, produced 46 deaths, against 38 during the corresponding weeks last ...