... declares that quite apart from criminality, infant insurance leads to great carelessness in the rearing of little ones. If a Royal Commission should be appointed to discuss this question of infant mortality, there are few more fitted to give evidence ...

... marriages in 1879. The most encouraging point in the figure; is the decrease in deaths, which is most marked in the case of infant mortality. It will be remarked that 1873, the year of the Exhibition, was notorious for the fatalities of the cholera, which carried ...

... the two peeceding years. This marked decline of infant mortality was in • greet measure due to the low rate of diarrhival mortality during the summer quarter of the year. The proportion of infant mortality, which averaged 149 per 1000 births ...

... NEW YORK BILLS OF MORTALITY. The mortality in New York in the year 1873, somewhat over 29,000, will show a diminution of 10 or 11 per cent. compared with the number of deaths in 1872. The summer diarrhoea disown especially were leas fatal. The deaths ...

... 90 and 100 years of age,showing &total of about 60 per cent. of the total death rate over 60 years of age, while the infant mortality under 6 years is only Oil. I was sent for to see a ease of small pox at Hutton. found it hod been imported direct from ...

... is not hose* in the meets of our towns and peat deal Is said in the Report to which I have so often referred about the infant mortality and the physical deterioration means from the labour of married woolen; ben is the two bah to which I wish to draw tee ...

... the Officer of Bengal, in his last otearterly report, some statistics of Infant mortality in that pros _ which are truly appalling. Be finds, on averaging the deaths among infants wider twelve months old for the last five years. the proportion per one ...

... rate was 161. MORTALITY OF MART& Of the 132,860 deaths registered quarter, 31,660 were of infanta under one year of age, 65,837 of persons aged between one and 60 years, and 35,363 of persons aged 60 years and upwards. The mortality of infants under one year ...

... declaration in regard to the death of a child, and the connection has attracted wider attention to the matter of the vast infant mortality of London. When it is considered that upwards of 4,000 children were interred in London in the course of a year without ...

... and that among females 18.7 per 1,000 of the estimated population of the respective sexes. For the whole country the infant mortality was at the rate of 141 per 1,000. THE PRICE OF BREAD. A MEWLING In continuation of the statistics, which appeared In ...

... youngest judge of the High Uourt. Hs id • good shorthand writer, and will take down the evidence by that method. Tua rate of infant mortality every year is iriormous. In round numbers, 5,000,000 babies never live long enough to talk, 5,000,000 more never have ...

... being redressed ty the low mortality .of females, of whom a little over 18 in the thousand died in the year. One mode of still lurther reducing the death roll is clearly sugd by the Registrar-Generars information on infant mortality. No fewer than 1544 children ...