... in the management of her children. An infant during the first twelve months is said to thrive as well in India as in England, when nurtured with due care; and after that age if there be excessive infant mortality it is due to carelessness and ignorance ...

... laid on the table, and the thanks of the members returned for the same, ?? INFANT MORTALITY IN AUSTRALIA. -The resident A of Victoria, who wishes to feel the extent of infant mor- tality, can goto a grave-yard. Last April I walked through . the Melbourne ...

... of such parents are not likely to thrive. Mr. Taylor's statistics are very misleading. He speaks of Leicester, where infant mortality is very high, as chiefly an agri- cultural town, whereas it is the centre of the elastic web trade, quite a modern industry ...

... in the main, judicious handling are the employment of children and married women (especially mothers), the effect on infant mortality of fatiguing or unwholesome occupations, unsanitary con- tions of labour, the sweating system, the demand for improved ...

... the influence of infected water and milk in spreading typhoid fever or diarrhoea, and to the causes and statistics of infant mortality. As a contribution to the yet tentative germ-theory of diseases it is a useful and important paper. Notes of an Irish ...

... citizens. M. Simon states the mortality among the children of artisans below one year at 20 per cent. in Manchester and Roubaix, 30 per cent. at Mulhausen, and 53 at Lyons. In the latter town among the higher ranks the infant mortality does not exceed Io per ...

... pi-oblem is no doubt -x'cry deeply mixed up in the question e of infant mortality ; but even so we cannot adimit that the panacea Ih for all ifls would be discovered if 90 per censt. of the infants who dic could be saved to thle nation, and if the average dcath ...

... objection being made on the part of the ladies of the family. Although murder is a crime of very rare occurrence, yet the infant mortality amongst the labouring class is so suspiciously gmat that an cfficial investigation is much needed, although extremely ...

... wise and delicate in frame, chew tobacco, and effect strong drinks almost as much as the grown up population. bul Of the infant mortality, of' which we have already fro the received such frightful tabular statements, he B. thiriks that much is attuibutablie ...

... economy of the mir, namely, the terrible mortality among children (page 33). It seems that out of every 1,000 infants only 593 arrive at the age of five years. It is not unknown to AI. de Laveleye that infant mortality is great in France among the peasant ...

... to their infant. M. Dollfus saw that the poor women were so anxious to get back to the factory that they could not be persuaded to wait until they had regained their strengtb. The consequence was that their health was destroyed and their infant was neglected ...

... of bodies of women, boys, girls, and infants; all these were likewise head- less. But the most horrible spectacle was near the gate of the fifth camp. Here was a pile of the bodies of women, children, and infants about nine feet high and containing at ...