... some of the Women. has something to do with it, and some- times the want of enough tea and bread. Yon are aware thot the infant mortality in Bel- fast is great?-Yes, that would, no doubt, increase the death-rate, but I Think the want of this sort of inquiry ...

... work in Belfast. It has been proved that mueb of Belfast a apparent 'high death-rate is due, to the large proportion of infant mortality, many of the deaths being due to neglect. Under these circumstances, the Day kNur- series scheme is one deserving of ...

... that the drinking caf tubercular inilk was e infinitely more dangerous than the eatincg off tuber s culoa flesh. 'The infant mortality from tubereu- t losis wa.>t very- high. Statistics showved tlimt about c 30 per cent. of the deathfs off yourngt children ...

... of the high de'vti-r.ale, Dr. Ciihborn stated that the infant mortalite tended to make the death-rate hig-her than it ouzht. . to be, and Dr. Coantes stated' theat a highl. rate of c infant mortality usua.lly accompanied. a high birth- rate, and it wra-s ...

... they should be extremaely chary about tiesing his hands in she performance of his duty.' Councallos' O'Neill referred to infant mortality in Belfast some yeats ago as being enormous, and pointed out that through the present coroner's in- duence that had been ...

... lecturer. Dr. Whitaker, in seconding the motion, said that a great deal of the mortality was due to the death of infants. The health of a town was generally gauged by the mortality. In formet times mothers looked after their children better than they do now ...

... entirely confined to infants and young children, Of the.30 deatbs from diarhcea and 4ysntery only one was that of an adult Throghot the United Kingdom there is an exceedingly high death rate, nearly altogether duo to infantile mortality. Id many of the English ...

... cpportunity for the baby. farmer. The act ?? shall not retain f hire or rehard more thau one infant ?? tbs age of one year for the purpose of nursing o maintaining such infant apart from its parenh for a loger period than twentv-four hours. Bci there is no law ...

... unfavourable to such a mortality. The children of the city are having a hard time of it. Last year's high death-rate during the early months was caused by an epidemic of measles. This year diarrhea has helped to swell the infant death-roll abnormally. ...

... high temperaturec wh:ch has prevailed lately diarrhoea has become - prevalent and is causing considerable mortality, a especially amongst- infants. More than 90- per cent? of the deaths caused by diarrhoea occur among inffnts. Great attention should ha ...

... patients have been :vaccinated !True, these witneasea try to minimise the effecftof this V admission by asserig- that the mortality is very a much h among theunvitcinate; but. at the saim -time. they are unable to- 'e in awaythe undeniable fact that, ignoring ...

... Antiquaries Rooms, and Sir Joseph Fayror delivered v short introductory address. ?? said that about a fourth of all the mortality in England was caused by preventive disease. Draw- ing a comparison between the state of England now and in the Elizabethan ...