... to prevent intemperance and not to ert it. STAaRC POISONING has been said, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be givern to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unlees such food has been previously ...

... than about four children. An average of something like four is necessary, we know, keep up population, and £o allow for infant mortality, inevitable celibates, and so forth. Few woman such State would abstain from maternity, save those who felt themselves ...

... and evidence collected by experts, that where married wemen were largely cmployed in factories, in the first place, the infant mortality was very much higher; and, in the second place, they might indirectly conclude that a stunted and enfeebled race succeeded ...

... conference. THE HOME SECRETARY ON INFANT MORTALITY. A deputation from the British Medical Associa- tion yesterday waited upon Mr Asquith to urge the necessity for legislatien with the view to lessen- I'nlg infant mortality by preventing mothers from working ...

... majority would be the eggs of pal tridges. STAnoi1 POISONING has been seid, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... to the effect of ' factory employment upon infant mortality and the health of married women. Quotig from th n Registrar-General's return, ho sai that fi r the 28 largest towns of England the infant mortality was 162 wer thousand of the children bern The ...

... 1891. 'were St slatgs, with 32 per cent., and Lochee, .with 30 6 per cent. St Mary's shows the highest average rate of' infant mortality in Dundee for the five years 1891-5: Lochee shows the lowest. ' 13. An analysis of the returns for- one district in 1891 ...

... Adam. Tile court made no order as to costs. WOHcN','; W-ORK AND INFANT MORTALITY.- The attention of the Home Secretary is being given at the present moment to the excessive infant mortality in certain artisan towns where women are largely engaged in factory ...

... Mrs Alfred Osler (of , Birmingham) read the lirst oie, in the course of awhich she adduced some information concerning infant mortality which is so large in most big -centres. Shealssogavesomevaluabie hintsas tothe necessity of fresh air, ventilation, general ...

... would have come far short of what they had'done. (Applause.) Rev. George Walker, East Parish, seconded the mot-ion. The infant mortality in the east end. ! amounting, he believed, to oneEfoureh. or at any- rate one-fifth, of the population, was largely due ...

... the formation of the.County Council. Thle number wns 150. giving t death rate of 16.4h, 'as against 12.6c3 in 1897. The infant mortality was also the highest they had yet had, 30 per cent. of.the deaths being of children tnder five years. Scarlet fever. ...

... the Office of Works.-Lon- don Daily Mail. STABOC POISONING has been said, on good authority to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...