... MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS. We publish the following letter as the advice of a London physician respecting the rearing of infants. Local attention having been directed to the great mortality prevailing among young children, we trust there will be no indifference ...

... and 1881, was 83,478 in the first three months of this year. The 110,324 deaths in the period just ended included 32,600 of infants under one year, 71,102 of children and adults aged between 1 and 60, and 36,462 of persons aged upwards of 60 years. In the ...

... , POET RY. ON A DEAD INFANT, Yes, this is Death, but in its fairest form, And stripp'd of all its terrors, That clos'd eye Tellsuothiung of the cold anid 1iungry worm- That holds his revel feast on frail mortality. Yes,- this is Death-but like a cherrb's ...

... PORTFOLIO. THE NATIVITY.-If great was the human extraction of aim who now idea as a helpless infant in the stable, with no purple royalty, but poor and vile swaddling clothes; with no courtly attendants but tho poor cattle of the stall, and they that ...

... the influence of a mother's love On Childhood's dawning heart. The earnest eyes, That droop all tenderly above the brow Of infant innocence, pour from their deeps The sympathetic softness of their gaze; And the young heart wakes to it like a flower Opening ...

... with the proceedings was the unique position enjoyed by the Mayoress on the occasion. The infant Mayoress laying the Foundation Stone of buildings for the Infant Schools I The thing has at least a touch of the unusual about it, and as this-most approp ...

... Mr. de Cobain, M.P., refusing to come to England and take his trial. A farmer named Frawley was shot at, and it is feared mortally wounded, by moontiglhters at Letter. kenny, oo. Clare, on Sunday night. Six hundred drillers employed at the Clyde ehip building ...

... enrapturd May. The Butterfly, on phnions bright; Launct'd in full splendour ozi the day. tneonscious of a mnother's care, No infant wretchedue- she knew But, as she felt the vernal air, At once to full perfection grew. Her slender form, ethereal, light. ...

... HOpRICK'S MALTED MILK WILt STAMP OrT 1 TuBEaCULOSIS in infants. Read the official returns of the Royal Commission, and you will find that the chief cause of th.s disease, whi(eh occasions uo much mortality aming children, is the common cow's 'milk that is ...

... out of 100 deaths, 60 to 65 are of infants under five years old. Then as if to shew that some other agency than that of natural causes had been at work, to produce such a fearful rate of mortality amongst infants, the Doctor re- turred to a town containing ...

... small-pox, It is raging in various parts of this metropolis, and through- out the country. It has already produced a great mortality, and, from all we can learn, is much on the increase It was stated in a valuable introductory report on the preventibility ...

... the d fifty great towns in England and Wales was 10-6, being less than that of the city by 1-0. But very little of its Mr. mortality ,as due to the principal ymuotics, as these produce Mr. only a rate of 2 34. In the other chief towns in Devon- ! shire, ...