... 15, 1879. MORTALITY BY ALCOHOL. We give to-day a paper by Dr. Norman Kerr, read on February 6th before the Herveian Medical Society of London. It may be remembered that the Harveian S oc ie ty's committee on Infant Mortality aided y in procuring the ...

... whereas they are in reality deteriorating the quality of that upon which the infant must depend for health and life.' Dr. Edis, who gave great attention to the subject of infant mortality, summed up his conclusions by stating that this loss of life was mainly ...

... professbn that the use of intoxicants plays a prominent part. Further, in the above table no account is taken of the infant mortality brought about by the neglect of drunken parents, the many fatal accidents, and cases of manslaughter and suicide in which ...

... and 27 and 29 per Children die young where the taverns are numerous. In the district* where there are few lieeneex the infant mortality under fix. yearn of age is 15 and 20 per cent. There are pot . .r people in each of the districts. It is more the habits ...

... were largely preventible. The infant mortality in this country was, no doubt, slowly decreasing, but it had not declined in anything like the same proportion that adult mortality had declined. In Norway the infant mortality averaged 100 per ...

... of 21,000. The average death-rate is found to be 30.8 per 1,000, compared with 212 for the rest of the borough. The infant mortality reaches 239.2 per 1,000 births, as against 168.3 for the rest of the borough, and 150 in the large towns of England. ...

... especially noticeable for its excessive infant mortality. There are some places in it where the death rate, instead of being 22 per 1,000, is 80 or 90. The excessive mortality of Liverpool is largely due to the infant mortality, and this is ...

... urged that even among the population iNgeneral the proportion of infant mortality to the aggregate mortality is very great, and that among the pauper classes the influences inimical to infant life are in much more vigorous operatico than among society as ...

... brain, that is unable to bear the warning cry of the infant, such infant being, in addition, not unfrequently narcotised already by the poison imbibed from the intemperate mother's breast. Such infants, said one coroner, are as much murdered as if the parent ...

... contribute largely to the tutare 111100111 of tte Company. INFANT MORTALITY. The C mpany diecoivrages insurance on intent lir payable 014 n death. It does not cl- grade life assuraLem to a gamble in Infant m,ortaht , but r strict, Its overshoes to the legitimate ...

... Niven, the Medical Officer of Health for Manchester. in his report for the quarter ending December, states that the infant mortality in the city more than the average in the thirty-three great gnglish towns by forty-four per thousand. In this infamous ...

... a copy of Sir,-1 am v under the above Jevons's article in the The importance of the fearful infant mortality ' in large towns, is very return of the infant Friends during the last be quoted as the ought to be able number of members in about 18,000. poor ...