... scheme would cost too much money. Now we know the present state of things cost human lives, espeolhly by causing undue infant mortality. Are we, then, arrived at snch a ( point in Exeter that sold is put before human s life 1 Secondly, we are told that ...

... consideration of the occupations of the pop- ulations of these towns would probably show some relation between the rate of infant mortality from all causes, including diarrhoesa, aid the Proportion of women employed in faeteries and wOrkehips; certain it is ...

... the agricultural counties of Wiltshire, Dorsetehire, Devon - shire, Cornwall, Pand Somnersetehire, the per-centage of infant mortality to births was only 11-0, and was so low as 9Odin Wiltshire. One of the most noticeable features in. the death returns ...

... was stated to be slightly in excess of that of October, 1881 (1607), but again below that of the 28 large towns. The infant mortality is loss than that of last ?? for Domestic Use. -The Town Clerk read a resolution of the Council directing the Inspector ...

... death-race of February, 1884, was 24-7 The number feat of deaths of infants under one year continued te be large bea -16. The committee resolved that, in consequence of the ceni large infant mortality os the city, which wae in the opinion sidc of the MNedical ...

... was decided to merge thet MedicalP urposeo and the Dispensing Commiottee into thb Finance Committee, to discharge the Infant i. Mortality Committee, to Xpake the, Apprentioeship Com- , mittee permanent, and to giv4 the Treasurer the right of r being an ex ...

... an abnormal numrber any or buria 18at the Cemetery this week for Ltjt.j the time of year. ,'Unlke last week, i5 it the infant mortality is but slight, twelve ports of the fifteen interments being those of vacults, whose ages ranged from 24 td'74, giving ...

... in the economy of Exeter. There is want of system in the drainage of the city; there is also an abnormal condition of infant mortality; and there are too many private slaughter- houses to be conducive to the public' health. In each of these things there ...

... milk is lessened, that is nothing compared with the lost of the nutritive properties ; and perhaps a large amount of infant mortality in Salford is, adds the report, due to the wretched milk with which the children are fed. And even the losa of the nutritive ...

... death-rate of England and WVales for 1877. The rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of 1 deathe under I year to births,-bhs bern 110 per 1,000 born n This is a low rate of infant mortality, but it should be still lower 'in populations mainly ...

... referred to this committee by the Town Council, enclosing a copy of a report of a committee of that body on the subject of infant mortality in Exeter, directing attention to various sugges- tioes in the report, and asking for the assistance of the Council in ...

... to the from to increase of infant mortality there. and whether it ?? be p~sib toamen The Infant Life Protection Act, en un1872 and The Registration Act, 1874, so as to;'wt bi foster-mothers who have charge of one infant We only, and all persons who ...