... a teaspoonful of boiling water. With this punch the infant's cries arc stilled- occasionally for ever. Dr. Jones gives a conspicuous place to density of population as a cause of infant mortality. The model dwvelliags, that huge block of buildings ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. 0 . % ITS CAUSES AND PREVENTION. Yesterday evening Dr D Edgar Flinn, F R C S, Dip. Pub. .Health, lectured in the Leinster Lecture HalL, Molesworth street, on the subject of Child Mortality: its Causes and Prevention, before the members ...

... of hygiene and the prevention of infant mortality were the other topics that Qccupied the attention of the ladies' section of the Congress. One figure mentioned by Miss Isabel Smith on the subject of infant mortality is little less --a appalling. While ...

... spread the disease, and the milk is the more usual source of infection. To this must be attributed the fact that the infant mortality from consumption has not decreased in at all the same proportion as the adult mor- tahty. It. is therefore plain that ...

... better G. The high mortality, as Sir Chrles Cameron has pointed out in his re- port, is due chiefy to two diseases, measles and infatile cholera or diarrhoea- This is the season when the latter disease works such havoe ong the infant population of large ...

... as to Lord Lonsdale being a very good sort. STARcH POISONING has been said, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child ill it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... ns of the coroner at a recent in- quest in Belfast regarding the enormous infant mortality of the Orange capital obtained from Mir Asquith the information that such 1 mortality is to be attributed to defective 2 sanitation. Surely it is time that Belfast ...

... ion between the sexes not great and is diminishing, there is a greater variety ...

... house. Then no one in the . ward has any respect for pauper nurses. I The Coroner-That, is a psychological reason. .Is infant mortality in thiu iustitutiou very large ? .I think it is unduly large. I may say I had every assistance for my suggestions from ...

... Dublin, 35 7. The Registrar-General stated the infant mortality in Dublin was exceptionally high. The conditions of infant life in Dublin were somewhat better than in other places,but the mortality amongst infants of the labouring classes in ...

... huddled to- gether in overcrowded and ill-ventilated roams. At this period we are prone to forget the death-rate and the infant mortality. We remember it again in the bad weather, we call meetings; but we do nothing, and when summer comes on the matter is ...

... physical and moral condition has degenerated in an even more alarming degree. Onl the point .f population, it is found that infant mortality stands at the high figure of 44 per cent, while tile adult death-rate hras been immensely in- creased by the introduction ...