... deaths among children under one year of age were 123, giving the very high infant mortality of 448. The figures for the same per ad last year being 69 deaths and an infant mortality of 164. Of tee total deaths 42 took place n July, 130 in August, and 88 ...

... and afforded a good in- cation of the sanitary state of the district. Phthises death-rate was '7; respitory, 2.4, and infant mortality 161.6. For the quarter ended December 1st, 266 births were registered, 122 boys and 144 girls. The deaths were 115, 56 ...

... very high infant mortality, but the growth of an impover- ished generation. The Song of the Shirt was a bitter cry. Greater cause still have we for bitterness and shame that, in Great Britain, the lives of thou- sands of helpless infants are needlessly ...

... Medical Gentlemen have gone so far as to say that if Sterilized Milk were given to all children fed from the bottle, the Infant Mortality in the large towns would decrease 50 per cent. TO INVALIDS.—This is the only Milk that can be used with perfect safety ...

... veldt. Wha- man in Boer or British host, Sueh share or mortal spoil could boast; ...

... of the movement, and it was his zeal alone with the work kept the society .from session to session in vigorous life. The mortal remains were removed from Efail Isaf to his home at Western street, Swansea, on Saturday, leaving the first named place at ...

... the female si V. Again, with regard to the inci- dence of diphtheria on children of various ages in London (apart- from mortality) an examina- tion of ilic figures for 1892-98 showed that the greatest attack rare was generally at age four or five; the ...

... reliable authority that small-pox, jail fever, ague, and other controllable diseases continued to contribute to the excessive mortality of the seventeenth century. During the eighteenth cen- tury people began to recognise the value of cleanliness of persons ...

... He also men- tioned the fact that diphtheria was generally more prevalent in October, November aad De- cember, and the mortality from the disease was more faoal during those months. He also remarked that the neighbour- ing Urban Districts, ecpecially ...

... wealthy citizens who had uo family. These men received a regular commission both from the parent* and frum those who adopted the infant. PERFORMANCE OF A Srn.v.-rcE Vow.—A woman with a singular history died at Ofeii, in Hungary. Fraulein Lma had not for thirty ...

... time in the moonlight, troubled him now. That had all happened long ago-ten years at the Very least —and the Colonel was but mortal. He had offered to take her then. To carry her away from her brutal husband, and her little children, to a life of love for ...