... Infant Mortality. Some curious facts are elicited in the statistics anent this important subject. The districts having the birthrates are Harris and South Uist, while those having the lowest are the first or Inverness district and the second or Aird district ...

... ON INFANT MORTALITY. Ohl pile it on, what boots it to repeat How births and deaths unpleasaatly do meet? Pallet:Mid to-day, to-morrow shoves What careless nursing does for tiny feet. Infaat mortality in Merkinek high Should make He Rosier Member heave ...

... Infant Mortality in Franco. THE gradual falling away of the population of France has long been a matter of European obaurvatioc, and at Lot the Chamber ban turned its attention to the matter and has obtained from the Government of the Republic an ext ...

... would merely add that since their last meeting had got the statistics infant mortality in the burgh for 1907. He was sorry to say that the rate was up. TTiere were 82 death’s infants tinder one year, giving rale 145 per thousand, which was higher than ...

... important towns. Dr Macdonald—Perth haft not adopted it, as the death-rate is below the hundred. Ex-Provost Macbean The infant mortality in a town with the healthy surroundings of Inverness is higher than it ought to be. I am convinced that if we adoot this ...

... WELFARE OF INFANTS. A letter was read from the National Assoe'l- Con for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and the Welfare of Infants as to an approaching conference in Glasgow. Dallis Macewen said practical steps had already been taken in Inverness ...

... that most of the see-Lads nesting along the coast have been peculiarly backward. There has also been a good deal of infant mortality among those kinds that have the habit of leading their young to the sea as soon as they are batohed. If the sew are heavy ...

... kill yet the mortality amongst infants !ante 50,000) is terrible sad shameful, for the low average of 45 years is mainly dee to the enormous infant mortality that Imists. Minn all babies Tinder six menthe old drins lat clean ilifant ...

... share of whatever their elders may I. havieg : laws, cheese, mrdines: waling is grudged to then, in consequence child and infant mortality is great. li e doubt, the mothers do not realise the importance of as a food ; there teem+ to little in it, and it some ...

... MORTALITY OF CHILDREN. In the Health Department, presided over Dr Lyon- Playfair, the first special question was “ What influence has the employment of mothers in manufactories infant mortality, and ought any and what re trictious to placed on such employment ...

... The most fertile class is the poorest, the weedieat, the worst ed seated, the leapt honest. A mung thi a very clam the infant mortality of coon* is appallingly high, but even so the birth-rate keeps handsomely ahead of i he death-rate. All this means that ...

... whether there was not some sinister meaning behind it. With regard to infant mortality, he contended that the employment of women in mills tended to increase the rate of infant mortality, and the question women’s labour ought to have further consideration ...