... those of infants, the oldest of whom was only three weeks. The committee, therefore, recommended, amongst other things that the Government take steps to have midwives instructed in the aseptic or antiseptic dressing of navels of new-born infants. The Colonial ...

... loss we suffer in this respect by reseon of one excessive infant mortality. The death-rate among the yonng of this colony it enormous. In 1839 the births were 10,183 and th e d ea th. of infante under 1 year no fewer than 1,861, or more than one-sixth ...

... indeed grown out of an eorrespoodeorie between he Poor Law Board and the Government of the Col.my • respecting the large infant mortality said to prevail in Barbados, with • view to encui y sod to ths taking of steps necessary ordesirable for checking it ...

... more so. Under proper management European children did very well in tropical colonies, in the most unhealthy of which infant mortality was lower than in some districts of Europe. The belief, again, that white men could not labor in the tropics was disproved ...

... of the mortality arises from infant mortality? Dr. HUNCH : Yee. Last year was the first year in which infant mortality was collected. and it was found to be 35 per cent, of the total deaths. Sir DAVID BARBOUR : What age do you reckon as an ...

... state of some of the wretched dwellings in which the people have to live, or the effect of exposure during I the stoem, infant mortality as well as adult has increased very high in all the parishes. We have heard of a family of 7 children at St, George's ...

... the masses kr.ow that there is e wide-spread fatalism them ; and in reference to eases of infant eicknes., they are often satisfied to believe that if the infant is to die nothing will save it and if it is to get better it will get letter The Clergy have ...

... cause of the infant mortality being eo high was due not only to diseased parents. but also to a large extent to the want of nourishment in the adulterated milk with which the children were fed. It was not to be wondered at that the mortality among infanta ...

... an average $3OO. In the United States 35 per cent of the males fail to reach the age of 20 year 3. Of coarse, the mortality among infants i 4 much greater than among older children or adults. For every person' dead there are 2 sick. It costs less to develop ...

... unsuitable. _ The CHAIRMAN : Is the food now supplied infants and children different from that which infants and children got twenty years ago? Dr. : I don't think so. I may say that the increase in the mortality among old people always takes place in times of ...

... mAber and infant are doing well. (Signed) JOHN WILLIAMS, M.D. FRZDK JOHN WADD, MB. The following bulletin issued at ten o'clock next morning at Wh;te Lodge : Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York raid a night. Her Royal Highness and the infant sou sr ...

... Howell, who, as reported in our last mail edition, is charged with having on the 30th alto., feloniously killed her newly born infant, having sufficiently recovered to be removed from her home without any risk to her health, was on the 14th inst taken to police ...