... of the Poor to take immediate steps to check the existing excesses and needless mortality amongst Ypung and helpless children. The first great cause of infant mortality, against which all others sink into insig. nificance, is put in a nutshell: Brought ...

... NOTES OF THE DAY. INFANT MORTALITY IN FACTORIES. The Sanitary Congress has this week discussed various important questions relating to the welfare of the people, and the disclosures of Dr. Reid concerning infant mortality ought to have the effrect of ...

... where people of all ages and both sexes are huddled together without any regard to the com- mon decencies of life. The infant mortality is placed as high as fifty per cent., while those who survive their earlier trials grow up without even the rudiments ...

... leakages prevented. INFANT MORTALITY. Dr. Reid (Staffordshire), medical officer of health, dealt with the influence which the practice of young mothers engaged ii factory work had in maintaining the excessively high infant mortality rates of many of our ...

... increase of infant mortality, he could not say it haid been proved to his satisfaction that the chief cause was the employment of the mothers in factories The Registrar-General's return for twenty-eight large towns showed an increase in mortality between ...

... are gathered in and the door shut, shat one witnesses cannot be described. One iteed not wonder at the prevalence of infant mort-ality. Insteliecs innuoerable might be givon thit litlve come under my notice where tho grossest licentiousness has bsen found ...

... iacrease the number of wran. men's traias,jee'l in cbecking the growth of mumlloi h towns by fiostating village industries. Infant mortality is regarded as an enormout evil, ss tbie mother has underglone a ?? 'emlotuating striain wsithuout any compensating result ...

... twenty-six per cent. This has to be compared with an aver-ge death- rate in the city of twenty-four per 1,000, and an infant mortality of fifteen per cent. No wonder that such was the result in houses not even wied or watertight, It was high time for the ...

... n being given to the local al itho. cities. It was not merely ill-treatment or net lect which caused a great deal of infant mortality, but, the aggregation of a large number of children under,.one roof. The measure provided for notification to 'the local ...

... injurious to both mothers and their children. (d) Work by mothers in 'factories is said to injure their infant children, and to augment infant mortality. The Commissioners may beexpected to state that they think the injurious effects of the present system ...

... r is specially fitted tip for them for the purpose of this old-fashioned pastiuse. HIGH INrA.NT OtAIT IS LONDON.-The infant mortality in London just no is very highs. Diarrhsta is this cause of the greatet number of deathss. According ho the Rogistra ...

... tion to the oellish way in which women now-a-days try to shirk suckling their children, and the consequenrt irncreaso of infant mortality. The price of Airs. Ballin's book is id., and. for-those lwho h.ave tO do with the feeding of young children it rill ...