... the oonoomitsnts of overcrowded and congested states of the population, viz., a high general death rate, a lamentable infant mortality, and, of courae, condition of gross insanitatiou in the streets.” ...

... chief causes of infant mortality alludes to under the following beads:— 1, Premature birth : 2, hereditary weakness; 3. insanitary surroundings ; improper feediogand defective nursing; 5, defective clothing and exposure to cold, and 6, infant life insurancewhich ...

... Death has be en busy in our midst during the ear. An epidemic o! ff measles led to a remark- one month to | ably heavy infant mortality, er thousand of the | an onprecedented figure p who were well population. Several citizens, known io the pub! lic and ...

... situation and promote mmmit which will for ever remove a standing dis- ] gtacs'to people and proprietors alike. Otherwise infant mortality will ecotinne; woman .will langnish and din untimely deaths; schools will ha every now and again closed to prevent the ...

... for father and mother, will at once seen that the remaining two is i»o mors than safficieot Iwldnoc the naturally by infant mortality, cripples, l«f •>U3, and otheia that are physically weak. That I -wrriago mart therefoie lie dictate of • those, thaicfore ...

... surveys—seems pleased to communicate the interesting fact that infant mortality on the island has been perceptibly decreasing within recent years, circumstance (though the precise cause of the mortality hitherto has only been a matter of conjecture among medical ...

... if they had been Wo in wedlock. Bring illegitimates their death-rate is 37. 20 per 1,000 therefore represents the extra mortality bastards. Of these I,OSO lahies, who this year would have lived if they had had legal fathers, but who will all in their ...

... equally divided between infant and believer’s baptism, aod that the president gave his casting vote in favour of the infants. To this is attributable in a great measure the confusion that abounds today. The sprinkling of infants was first introduced in ...

... Murray's interest in the scholars begin whan they entered the infant room, and never left them until they were through the standards. acquaintance with them only begins whan they leave the infant room to enter upon the more diSeolt work of the standards. ...

... cent, of the total deaths; in Scotland, on the other hand, 4381 infants died under one year, or 6 per cent. The fact that the Scotch mothers seldom if ever give farinaceous food to their infants before they can assimilate it is given as the reason to a large ...

... list in 1892 of mortality children under one year of In hall, Scourie, and ¢ Clyne. there have been no deaths of child: ren pander five years of age. iy ie, and Loth keep up their good name for this since 1891. The death rate infants is greater in fishing ...

... malady has made its appearance in that lone isle of the sea, St Kilda. remarkable mortality has manifested itself amongst children, and s» fatal is it that scarcely one infant out of a whole family of children survives. The symptoms of the illness appear ...