... of the Poor to take immediate steps to check the existing excesses and needless mortality amongst Ypung and helpless children. The first great cause of infant mortality, against which all others sink into insig. nificance, is put in a nutshell: Brought ...

... INFANT MORTALIT Y A highly-important subject, concerning as it annnally does thousands of lives in the United Kingdom, bas becn lately brought prominently before the public, with respect to the mortality which prevails to un alarming and fearful Iextent ...

... cent. That is to say, the mortality among infants less than twelve mouths old was not a great deal short of being three times as high as among chil- dren under five, and was actually more than eight times as great as the mortality of the whole population ...

... required to arrest the apparent indifference which exists amongst our population to the destruction of infant life. The increase of infant mortality, under the head of ' Suffocation, is not confined to our parish, but embraces the whole metro- polis ...

... tihe inimiation to devote any prolonged study to the perusal of the morning papers. ' It results from my inquiry that infant mortality is great among news- papors, ns it is among human beings. If I included weekly papers the number both of births and deazths ...

... de i56 per cent.; Birmingham, 150percenet;, per oent. ; Liverpool, 1.76 per cent.; Glen. lper cent. Tbe high rate of infant mortality' p clI c~itiO5 as Glasguw, in fact, are hot no much from g~te, ?? or any other physicel condition of the f~ t from peculiar ...

... the (lay but hlave not the time or l e: . c ally prolonged Sakidy to tile a of the morn;ng . I - flt inl my ittjuiry that infant ml-oitality is- grat aloong nlO c-s ; * .: ,lg.unal atigs. If I includod i ec;lv palot tihe tunihber : . 1 :clkilis u ild ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN CALCUTTA. ONE of our correspondents in Calcutta writes to us ?? chamber a few feet square, so situated that at the best of times its atmosphere must be close, has every aperture carefully shut. It is crowded with relatives and attendants ...

... INFANT MORTALITY AND INFANTICIDE. At the ordinary meeting of the Statistical Society, held last week, Dr. Lan- kester made a speech on infant mortality and infanticide. Alluding to some remarks contained in the paper by the Abbe Contini, which had been ...

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... first be kept in mind that nothing can be more delicate or sensitive than the vital organs of an infant. It matt then be understood that the great infant mortality occurs amorgst those families which are compelled to live in second, third, and fourth class ...

... be kept in mind that nothing can be more delicate or sensitive than tthe vital organs of an infant. It must then be understood 1 0 that the great infant mortality occurs amongst those fami. 1 i lies which are compelled to live in second, third, and fourth ...