... Alderman Wright in the chair. Evidence was given by several otber medical 'ic a* t men assigning reasons for the excessive infant mortality, in or and the inquiry was adjourned. It is expected to Al occupy a considerable time, and it is decided not only cc ...

... to prevent intemperance and not to ert it. STAaRC POISONING has been said, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be givern to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unlees such food has been previously ...

... and evidence collected by experts, that where married wemen were largely cmployed in factories, in the first place, the infant mortality was very much higher; and, in the second place, they might indirectly conclude that a stunted and enfeebled race succeeded ...

... and the world were the introduction of the most approved modern antiseptic, the discovery of new methods of diminishing infant mortality. and his valuable improvements in the construction ot forceps. (Loud applause.) The degree was conferred amid great cheering ...

... conference. THE HOME SECRETARY ON INFANT MORTALITY. A deputation from the British Medical Associa- tion yesterday waited upon Mr Asquith to urge the necessity for legislatien with the view to lessen- I'nlg infant mortality by preventing mothers from working ...

... majority would be the eggs of pal tridges. STAnoi1 POISONING has been seid, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... A paper was read by Professor Edwin Chadwick jI le, upon the application of sanitary science to the reduc- em tion of infant mortality. be Et. -fri is A POWEaRUL SPBING.-The latest Yankee discovery tin b is a spring in Michigan so strongly magnetic that ...

... Adam. Tile court made no order as to costs. WOHcN','; W-ORK AND INFANT MORTALITY.- The attention of the Home Secretary is being given at the present moment to the excessive infant mortality in certain artisan towns where women are largely engaged in factory ...

... intermediate schools, and local colleges. In the Health department Mr Dolan furnished a aper on The influence exercised on infant mortality by the employment of mothers in mills and manufac- tories. In the department devoted to Economies a lively dis- cussion ...

... the formation of the.County Council. Thle number wns 150. giving t death rate of 16.4h, 'as against 12.6c3 in 1897. The infant mortality was also the highest they had yet had, 30 per cent. of.the deaths being of children tnder five years. Scarlet fever. ...

... ILETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 1, BABIES IN ARMS. G SIa,-On the 1st of November last our timpenriture fell, and infant mortality rose with a voageance. This. 7 unfortunately, has continued at an nnusu fly higli rmt 1 ever since. Can nothing be done to c irrpct ...

... question-stated before y the same Cornmi'eicn that ' he hadl mo doubt wfirt- e ever that tih practice of infant insuraince tended to fincrease infant mortality.: Now when we coims, to a consider that these horrible musrders, which a'e tperpetcated in the most ...