... INFANT MORTALITY. The recent cold and wet weather has had a dialsthong effect upon the health of children In Liverpool. At the last meeting of the flealth Committee it was reported that the number of deaths the previous week was 310, being 103 more than ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. cbi-ef cause the high rate of infantile mortality 5«, that Sal ford, in other cotton-manafaoturing districts, mothers leave their offspring soon after fcirth. this enstom. Ta'.ham speaks very strongly:—'The unfortuna e littl nnrsliogs ...

... HOW WE SLAUGHTER OUR INNOCENTS. Infant mortality (says the Pall Mall Gazette) excites but little interest oompared with the mortality of adults. For decency's sake, however, it might be as well to endeavour-at least to reduce the rate at whiob babies ...

... largely costi nlat . lh( , milk well( as food for young infants. It is remark- „ , tiol , woll | d able that while our general death-rate i. incn ., wouomy in „, steadily decreasing, the infant mortality ha. , thl) r ,. form / r>) cheaper well a. of late yean ...

... meeting Wednesday, arc well worth . ttcn t'n>n. After repotting increase of death among infants in the district, he says, that 'the causes of this high rate of infant mortality are ver\ to those have observed the habits the working classes manufacturing districts ...

... increase of births, a decrease of 3 marriages, and an increase deaths compared with 1K95. An increase in the rale of infant mortality was no» ...

... statistics the Royal CommisaLii in order to show that their conclusion respecting the influence ef burial societies on infant mortality was not warranted by tbe facts. Mr M'DONALD said hasty legislation this subject would great deal worse than delay for ...

... the contrary, it is typical of thousands of others which differ from it mainly in being lers conspicuous The gigantic infant mortality in our great towns is notorious. I u some parted Liverpool, for example, 58 per cent. of the children under one year ...

... the prisoner rushed the watchman, and would have struck him had she not been prevented by the officers of the Court. INFANT MORTALITY AMERICA. Two facta appear be established statistics published in the United States, that the cumber of children born ...

... scarlatina alone. Much of the mortality, therefore. belongs to the preventable class. This should stimulate all those taking part in the cleansing movement to persevere in their praiseworthy efforts. The infant mortality has fallen from 43-85 and 40 per ...

... and Dr Hawkins speaks very strongly of its pernicious effects in poisoning the blood. To it attributes the excessive infant mortality in the district, and the ' miserable, feeble, brownish-yellow countenances so striking among many of the inhabitants ...

... great infant mortality in most of our large towns may be both -difficult to discoyer and to remove, but the simple fact that all towns are not alike would seem to afford good beginning from which to start on the inquiry as the causes of infant mortality ...