... which was very high, but only in keeping with the death rase all over the country. The birth rate was 37'40 nee 1000. The infant mortality was very striking this month, 52 6 per coot. of the total deaths. Toe majority died tram disease. of the chest. The report ...

... VENTILATING THE NURSERY. The tremendous proportion of infant mortality in town slums, compared to country cottages, is, says the .Mother's Magazine* directly predisposed to overcrowding and lack of pure air. The nursery, both day and night, can hardly ...

... Commenting on these two points, Lord Rosebery spoke of the excessive infant mortality of Glasgow, which he regarded great reproach to community. It bad been said that the mortality Glasgow was doe to the smoke. The change the atmospherio conditions from ...

... last year from the figures given above has 1 exceptionally good. The infant mortality is comparatively small when the number of births is taken into consideration and the mortality from the tymotic diseases is also very satisfactory when one remembers ...

... vaccination. Tbe parliamentary return No. 433, session 1877, entitled ** Vaccination Mortality,” gives very remarkable evidence of the great increase of infant mortality •coincident with the extension of vaccination. This retorn shows that in the year 1875—tbe ...

... which was very high; but only in keeping with ih© death-rate all over the country. The birth-rate was 37.40 per 1000. The infant mortality was very striking this month—•*s2.6 per cent, of the total deaths. As usual at time, the majority died from diseases ...

... method of abating the nuhanee. Referring to the alarming infant mortality in the burgh, the doctor says—There is far too much misconception in the public mind as to infant feeding. There is no infant food which equals mother's milk, but failing that, milk ...

... parish, las also whooping cough, and to unusual amount of diarrhoea in the neighbourhood of j Bathgate and Broxburn. The - infant mortality ! was 163, against 97 last year, and 143 the previous year. That part the report which deals with the burgh of Whitburn ...

... dangerous elements most calculated to beget and spread disease. It has been said, indeed, that a very large proportion of the infant mortality is due to tuberculous disease caused through drinking milk from diseased cows. It is surely unnecessary in this enlightened ...

... prevailed among infants much in the proportion in which milk fed band constituted their food. Dr Shakespeare declares that the causative factor these disease* was bacteria, and as these are most rapidly propagated in summer, it is at that season infant mortality ...

... sugar To this unconverted starch into the stomach was to send poison into it this accounted for the enormous hill of infant mortality which he had called attention on the previous night similar state of things existed with old people who were in their second ...

... being to grow up with such a manner. Those who have lost an infant are never without an infant child. The other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality. This one alone is rendered an immortal child. Death has arrested ...