... Infant Mortality in France. Rochard, Member of the Acedemy of Medicine, has given • lecture at the Sorbonne on the Depopulation of France. He showed, says the Paris correspondent of the Alr , y News, by the returns ot the last Census in the provinces ...

... NORMOUS INFANT MORTALITY Dr G. Danford Thomas, at an inquiry as to the death of an overlain child in London, said that he held 300 cases annually on children who were suffocated in bed with their parents. There were over 1000 children suffocated in London ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN BIRMINGHAM. At an inquiry Birmingham yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of a months old child named Elizabeth Nocn, the Coroner remarked that this was one of the hundreds of deaths that had occurred in Birmingham ...

... Alderman Wright in the chair. Evidence was given by several otber medical 'ic a* t men assigning reasons for the excessive infant mortality, in or and the inquiry was adjourned. It is expected to Al occupy a considerable time, and it is decided not only cc ...

... THE HOME SECRETARY ON INFANT MORTALITY. A deputation from tho British Medical Association yesterday waited upon Mr Asquith to urge the necessity for legislation with the view to lessening infant mortality by preventing mothers from working ia factories ...

... INFAN MORTALITY. attention of the Home Secretary is being given at the present moment to the excessive infant mortality in certain artisan towns where women are largely engaged in factory labour. There can be no question that the excessive mortality in many ...

... deaths at five periods of life brings out clearly how great is the incidence of mortality in this city, es on infants under five years of age. A fair proportion of this mortality is due to nompreventibe causes, as prematurity of birth, and deficient development ...

... The American Heat Wave. EXCESSIVE INFANT MORTALITY. TO-DAT . III eursti.l Philadelphia, Itlonday.—A wave of intense beat passed over the United States last week, causing the thermometer in localities to approach 100 degrees. Tbe heat killed 672 infanta ...

... to Tae infant mortality of Tokio is hi faves is the too early exposure of new-born cb not unosual to see a week-old baby stra on the back of a child about eight, an: sent out to be jumbled about as its infant nurse plays and romps with other children ...

... British Medical Association yesterday waited upon Mr Asquith to urge the necessity for legislation with a view to lessening infant mortality preventing mothers from working in factories for certain period. The deputation also sought have deaths properly certified ...

... who prefer to save money at the expense of human life.'' Tea drinking, the medical officer adds, is as great a cause of infant mortality as anything he knows of. The mothers drink tea three or four times day, and the children are regularly dosed with it ...

... he promised to give to its promoters as in the eleventh hour to change his mind. He was told be would Herod in causing infant mortality, and that an exhibition where 3700 infests wore would be a slaughterdiottesubf ...