... INFANT NEGLECT AND MORTALITY. The more closely we cxanr.ine the practice of child- insurance (says the Lancet) the less there appears to commend it. Notwithstanding the fart that disease is much more prevalent during the early years of life than later ...

... that the excess of infant mortality in such a year as 1893 implies a real increase of the mean death-rate of infants is not less misleading than it would be to proclaim a decrease of infant mortality because the death-rate of ...

... the buildings who were removed to hospitals, waa 18-19 per 1,000, which i* 3-21 per 1,000 beiow the average London. The infant mortality 133-67 in each 1,000 births, or below that of London. ...

... increase of infant mortality in towns which were not manufacturing towns at all, and in 1 which, therefore, the employment of mothers in factories I after child-birth could not be regarded as a largely contributing cause of infant mortality. To take one ...

... and Bolton. Of t-le 14 Aeatbs froma snmallpox, 5 occuirred in London, 3 in West 11am, 2 in Cardliff, and 2 in Swansea. Infant mortality last quarter in England and Wales was equa. to 143 per 1,000 births registered, and waxs alightly below the average. ...

... thirty-two large provinelal towns, Infant mortality in England and Wales last quarter was equal to 178 per 1,000 births registered, and slightly eoceeded. the average. In the thirty-three large towns the rate of infarnt mortality averaged 232 per 1.000. and ...

... ealford; and fever in Portsmouth, Freetoj, alti I Plymouth. The single fatal case of smallpox was recorded in London. Infant mortality last quartir was equal fto 160 per 1,000 Fof the births registered, and almost curieep niep ivltli rho mean proportirn ...

... natural feeding on infant mortality. in *towvns where women were most largely employed away from home, the infant mortality was always the highest. ln JLei5Lstori where the women were ery largely employed away from home, there was an infant ...

... unut-r the tiotc'-le Of the p'irr-h'-er the ie thai he is buy in4, -:1'kTn nui'dc-. Mcle -d- evtlcncs-e ?? to show ths~t infant mortality i Iar- 'dx atm-i butable to the f-itt that c-hfidron are fed 1 sin 'inl Si m irn 1, lt hc-hr in it-ti-I is tact stiffii~enct ...

... record stood at eight men and three women. Of course, we get no indicaion of other truths, such as the prevalence of infant mortality, but half an hour may be much more dully spent than by deducing data from this column, and I~sl theyrsut obainbe fort ...

... others responsible fothC care of infants into effectingg an irsursflL~ The evidence already given before the Select Cnm- mittee has undoubtedly justified the holding-it this additional inquiry into the whole systems of infant insurance. Whatever motives may ...

... Factory Acts, in so far as the em- i ploymentof women bears upon the mortality of infants. Mr. Asquith said, though he deeply regretted the great increase in the large towns of infant mortality, the deputation 'had not completely to his satisfaction proved ...