... 15s. and a balance will be left of £12,625 os. 3d. to be carried over. Infant Mortality in Australia. —The resident of Victoria, who wishes to feel the extent of infant mortality, can go to graveyard. Last April I walked through the Melbourne cemetery ...

... in the world, the editor attempts to accouut for Uiis high mortality by tracing it to the use of distillery milk; and so deadly have been its effects that hitherto the average infant mortality, in August, has been 4..0 a week. A letter from the Mormon ...

... and poor, was proportionally more than three times greater than the mortality in these establishments during the last year. Still more striking is the com- parison of the infant mortality. In the lodging- houses the proportion was 10 in 1000. In the whole ...

... The Infants of Manchester. — ln this town (which is so healthy that the average age reached by the gentry is 47 years,) the working classes lose 56 per cent, of their children, while the gentry lose only 18 per cent The amount of infant mortality, when ...

... has risen to 27, and last year was 28i ; so that three years at least have been added to the life of each inhabitant. Infant mortality has sunk, under one year, 16.3 per cent. ; under five years, 4.6 per cent. The decrease of deaths is mainly in that class ...

... day. Unquestionably this fearful rate of infant mortality is owing to the lack of sanatory discipline and of medical knowledge. It is an unnatural, a preventible, and, therefore in a sense, a criminal mortality. They perish not generally from any inherent ...

... of Parliament— a demand to which his Excellency stands pledged Cabinet to accede on such a contingency arising. I'he infant mortality in Australia is pro gious. Nm graveyard at Victoria is full of stones recording '.heir in- terments. Decline ix tue ...

... PARK INFANT SCHOOL. COLLECTIONS in aid of tbe above admirable SCHOOL will be made after SERMONS in ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, on SUNDAY next, the 9th instant (To-morrow.) The Rev. G. TREVOR, A.M, Preaches in the Evening. Morning Service at Half-past Ten; Evening ...

... high rate of mortality ; 91 persons died. The registrar of Great Watering, one of the sub-districts, explains this in his note The deaths have greatly exceeded the average, in consequence of the prevalence and fatality of diptheria among infants, especially ...

... late Mr. George Axe, Pepper-alley. Saturday last, at Wentworth Woodhouse, Wm. George Frederick Wentworth Fitzwilliam, the infant sou of Viscount and Viscountess Milton. Killed, at Cawnpore, Bt.-Lt.-Coi. E. Wiggins, o2nd Regt. N. 1., Deputy Judge Advt ...

... do this, (which he certainly cannot,) his '• conclusion fails; and infant baptism must be presumed to have been contemporary with Christian religion. Ilis- torical facts prove infant baptism I have been coeval with Christianity. Is it not a fact that ...

... condition of the country. The returns for the year show an excess of mortality in the six cold months, while the mortality in spring and summer was below the average. Ihe excessive mortality is attributed partly to the pressure in the early part of the year ...