... Infant Mortality. Some curious facts are elicited in the statistics anent this important subject. The districts having the birthrates are Harris and South Uist, while those having the lowest are the first or Inverness district and the second or Aird district ...

... in the statistics of infant mortality. With all our knowledge, and the accumulated experience of hundreds of years to help us, we have not jet learned how to rear our young. In the poorer parts of London the rate of infant mortality is appaling, and one ...

... practice of the Bedaween, who roll their infants in the Lurniog sun at height of noon, that may become hardy sons of the desert ! But the Aleuts have no hygienic @ iations : they do not intend that the infant mortality be low. And they have a very ictical ...

... 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 ...

... excellence of the report drawn up Dr Ogilvie Grant, and oslled attention to the serious infant mortality, pointiog out that in two places in the county the infant mortality waa one in three as regarded children under one year. He ooncluded by moving the adoption ...

... cause or cure [We respectfully invite questions on all subject* of interest agriculturists.] Odds and Ends. Infant Mortality. —The rat© infant mortality, in round numbers; -5,000,000 babes never live long enough to talk, 5,000,000 more never have chance to ...

... 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 ...

... be purchased and by young people who are at the outset of their housekeeping career. Nobody can real the statistics of infant mortality without coming to the conclusion that parents, and parkeularly mothers, require some education in the phyniologiad mid ...

... man, and danced a reel before the distinguished visitors. All the five infants bore during the past twelve months are doing well, aid Mr Folder specially notes that the infant mortality formerly prevailing to ouch an alarming extent. Miimably on &cermet ...

... to think that thro ugh certain efforts of his own, auprovements had been elle tad in the conclitiou of 'he population. Infant mortality, which a number of years ago was so prevalent, was nose decreasing. When he first went to St Kills he thousht he would ...

... 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 ...