... INFANT MORTALITY. **• TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. Sir, -The statistics of the London death-rate seem to indicate that 10 infants are every week on an average suffocated in bed. If it is the fact that 520 lives are yearly thus cut short in London ...

... ?? — : INFANT MORTALITY IN GLASGOW. -♦- L)r. Strang, tbe City Chamberlain of Glasgow, in a report on the vital and economic statistics of that city has tbe fol- lowing remarks oa the large amount of infant mortality which prevails there. Last year it ...

... excessive infant ! mortality? It is much to be hoped that the fearful loss of infant life from diarrhoea wiU not escape tha con- sideration of that learned assembly. I would also suggest tbat an inquiry into the causes of excessive infant ...

... country, of the same disastrous result — excessive infant mortality in consequence of the employment of adult women — an exemplification which has not long come to light. An enor- mous infantine mortality had been observed in several purely agricultural ...

... Infant Mortality in Berlin. — Berlin con- tains 13,011 pri-rate houses and ?? buildings for other purposes. The former are built in separate r!ats, .is in Scotland, and are divided into 152,041 dwellings, including 11,21*2 cellars (or rather more than ...

... many other places. In considering the classes in which infant mortality waa greatest, it was important to remember that tbe more fruitful classes might from their fruitfulness show a greater mortality than those less fruitful. Clergy- men, generally, had ...

... too long hours of labour, improper or insufficient food, and personal habits. The mortality statistics of the Registrar-General showed that the rate of infant mortality was considerably higher in urban than in rural districts, antl Dr. Farr found by comparing ...

... food is cheap. The rate of infant mortality in New Zealand is less than ours, because infants there generally get their natural food, and are not poisoned by artilicial foods and bad milk ; moreover, the insurance of infant lives is rare. — Yours, &c ...

... In examining the alleged connection between high rates of infant mortality in Lancashire and the employment of married women, statistics were given to show that high rates of infant mortality are to be found where but a small proportion of married women ...

... essence of milk, .and a new interpretation of the requirements of the human infant. The paper commenced by referring in pain- fid terms to the alarming state of infant mortality, and contended that something must be done to alter the system, or else we ...

... excessive perils of infancy may be traced to poverty. Some curious statistics, however, work out if we consider the rate of infant mortality in connection with the marriage-rate. The latter is a useful index of national prosperity, but regarded generally throughout ...

... remove for sanitary, municipal, or other purposes? 3. What influence has the employ- ment of mothers in manufactures on infant mortality, and ought any and what restrictions to be placed on such employment ? Economy aud Trade Department. —1. What are ...