... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... congratulated. Be is pitiel on account of his lease of life having expired, and congratulated because folk who shake otf this mortal coil on Christmas Eve are supposed to be sure of eternal happiness. In several parts of Devonshire and Cornwall the people ...

... under 1 year numbered 29 per cent, of the whole mortality, showing a very considerable prevcntible death-rate. With the increased water supply and the better housing of the working classes, this number infant deaths. I hope, will be gieatly diminished in ...

... woman crying, whereupon took it out of its cradle and throw it into the well upon its mother, the fall instantly killing the infant. Lowe’s little boy then began to cry and call for help, and the negro procured an axe for the purpose of killing him. The ...

... deaths were due to them The death-rate under this head was 3‘63 per of average strength, against 3*Bo in 1893. From alone the mortality among native soldiers (2*87 per 1000) was about four times as great as that among European troops (0 75 per 1000.) Fevers ...

... been a phenomenally low one. In Bo’uess portion, Mr Paul informed him it was a record one for lowness. Th© Grangepans mortality was infant one —6 deaths, with average age of 73.37 days, or, roughly, 21 months. In aU, II deaths were reported, giving a rat© ...