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

... SERIOUS STATE OF INFANT MORTALITY. Lecturing on the subject of Child jji ijf I last night in Dundee, Dr Templeniam J officer of health, said that tr general sanitary condition cf the r»l the general diminution of the r* mortality' among children under ...

... A COI ONER ON INFANT MORTALITY In the course of an Inquest at Manchester yesterday afternoon on the body of a child who had been accidentally suffocated in bed, Mr 8, Smith, deputy city ceroner, that it was a dangerous practice for mothers to very have ...

... HEAVY INFANT MORTALITY LN LEITH. Ata meeting of Leith Town Council to-day it was repotted thas momth there were 112 a death-rate of deaths, equal to 17. Eight deaths were caused by zymotic disease, and 52 of the deaths were of children under five years ...

... to Mr Asquith that the alleged increase of infant mortality was due to the employment of married women in factories, contends that no constant relation has been estab- lished between the rate of infant mortality in different towns and the proportion marri ...

... question, and that it suggested to him that the earlier eloeing of publichouses would materially lessen this appalling infant mortality. The matter was remitted committee for investigation. ...

... im theee figures” is sanitation, and bad water supply, defects, Owing to e@vnditions connected with dwelling- houses,” infant mortality in the rural districts is & per «sent. greater than the average cate, — ...

... the dwell- ings, the report states that the general death-rate is 0°96 per 1000 below the average of Londun, while the infant mortality is 14°74 below that of the metropolis. ...

... age which women married was now somewhat later than formerly. There were more infants horn in towns than in the country in proportion to the population, but the infant mortality in towns was so much higher than in the country that the town excess of births ...

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

... societies, but in collecting societies Bot till two years of age. ey all regretted the rate of infant mortality, but it was not correct to say that this rate of Mortality was due to insurance. The deaths were caused rents going to bed drunk ou Saturday nights ...

... Sain OF INFANT ID RANCE, A sick aod death club at here infant mortality ranks exceedingly bigh—haa, of its medical officer under rat. says the Birmingham Gazette, just lost the services liar circum- ‘The club has an as treasurer, and the undertaker's ...