... 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.” ...

... the district, giving the total of 359 and a death- aud 15°44 in 1906. rate of 17°68, as compared with 18°36 in 1907, Infant Mortality—25 children under one of age died durin the year, giving an infantile (a eaths under one mortslity figure 1000 births) ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... for father and mother, will at once seen that the remaining two is i»o mors than safficieot Iwldnoc the naturally by infant mortality, cripples, l«f •>U3, and otheia that are physically weak. That I -wrriago mart therefoie lie dictate of • those, thaicfore ...

... surveys—seems pleased to communicate the interesting fact that infant mortality on the island has been perceptibly decreasing within recent years, circumstance (though the precise cause of the mortality hitherto has only been a matter of conjecture among medical ...

... if they had been Wo in wedlock. Bring illegitimates their death-rate is 37. 20 per 1,000 therefore represents the extra mortality bastards. Of these I,OSO lahies, who this year would have lived if they had had legal fathers, but who will all in their ...

... which was doing its bist to attract our attention, it tusued out to be an Arab dhow, having on board siz or more balf-oaked mortale in the sorrowful plight of being without bread or water, It was a sight long to be remembered, when our majectic steamer pulled ...

... equally divided between infant and believer’s baptism, aod that the president gave his casting vote in favour of the infants. To this is attributable in a great measure the confusion that abounds today. The sprinkling of infants was first introduced in ...

... Its cultivation, therefore, is of primaryimportance, and should begin at the earliest stage life. But when see how young infants are permitted, by the indulgence of foolish mothers, to defy them and their nurses, to struggle and scream and kick in paroxysms ...

... Murray's interest in the scholars begin whan they entered the infant room, and never left them until they were through the standards. acquaintance with them only begins whan they leave the infant room to enter upon the more diSeolt work of the standards. ...