... enactments came into force. It relates only to infants. Before the Act was enforced, of all who died from small-pox 75 per cent. were under fire years of age. In 1863, how. ever vaccination had so reduced infant mortality that those under five years who died from ...

... good, not so good as Mr Jerrold's gEnough at Christmas. The object of the paper is to draw attention to the deplorable infant mortality in these countries with the view of providing some moans of checking the evail But why Enough at Christmas 7 For this ...

... jenats, 0 a s, 33; total animnals. 56,364. Snnucx PoisomiNG has been said, on goeo authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a fIlI mouth od teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... danger of being called to account or accused of being rig-hteous overnuchl. INFANT MorXrALITY IN AUSTRALIA,-Tho resident of Victoria, who wishes to feel the extent of infant mortality, can go to a graveyard. Last April, I walked through the Melbourne Cemltery ...

... still manv of ih«se slaughter houses the unsanitary of which was doubt ess a fruiti fnl source lisna*e. The question of infant mortality was one most deserving attention. niiiny the cases that had come his own know! re children were allowed get burned to ...

... very important factor in' the gen eral - death-rate or zymotic death-rate the subject of investigatico, or an increased infant mortality, or the canto of a specific epidemic or endemic sdisease. In every case food, no less than air, water; climate, ground ...

... zymotic death-rate and' the infant mortality of Dublin, the sanitary condi- tion of the city- would appear to be as satisfactorj as that of the English towns, and even as that 01 London. Many sanitarians regard the infant death-rate to be as a measure ...

... resting-place Shalt thou retire al]me, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down Wilth patriarchs of the infant world-with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good- Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past- All in (me mighty ...

... TO AN INFANT. Al, cease thy tcars and sobs, my little life! I did but snatch nway the unclasped knife. Some safer toy will soon arrest thine eye, Arid to, quick laughter change this peevish cry. Poor shmbler on the rocky coast of wo, Tutored by pain each ...

... names-they vanished-and are gone!- XIIl. Who reared them? Mortal bands-and can they give The breath of immortality to clay I Is not man mortal? Can his aots outlive And laugh at his mortality I Canthey Trample on death and tower above decay, While he ...

... through boundless space nrari Thy ?? began, ()r thline eye of love was kindly set Upon the home of man ? Fair Spirit ! if to mortal muso The priviloge be given The deeper mysterics to scan Of thy far native heaven, Nlethinks before my trsance5 eye Thy happy ...

... vision no longer emotion could trace. They heard her low accents; she asked them to bring Hor denr little sister-a sweet, infant thing- To lok on her own little Amy once more- To see its bright, innoceont gladness before- But here the voice failed, yot ...