... INFANT MORTALITY, The average death rate of ohiidren noder 1 yesr of age per 1000 birthe, from 1881 to 1859, was 128 in Beotiand as & whole, 91 in the mainiand raral and 86 ip the ipsular raral districts of Scosland. Thae iufantile death rate in the Local ...

... on Infant Mortality. Campbell, of Dundee, says been saying some very plain about infant mortality in se. Taking his stand upon ee is notorious among the for its high rate of infant ed that they never would 8 they ought to do unless ok steps ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. Last year he had occasion to allude totho infantile mortality in the bargh. He pointed oat that the gormal infantilo meriality in healtby towns was 45 to 50 per 1000 births. Ile had ocossion o abow them that in Oban dnring the past 13 ...

... INFANT MORTALITY IN ST KILDA, The Rev. Mr Fiddee, thaFreeCharch missionary stationed on the island, has arrived on the nisinland for the purpose of conferring with several medical gentlemen regarding the peculiar malady which effects the newly.born infants ...

... the babies are neglected, and ‘that the infant mortality is high? It would require a radical change in the manners and morals of the men before there was the slightest hope of any diminution in the infant mortality. The ideal state is one in which no married ...

... districts of the mainlaud. INFANT MORTALITY. A high infant mortality is almoa‘ always associated with insanitary surroandings. Before sccurate coueclusions can be drawn it will bo neceasary to ‘bave statistics of ssveral years, as mortality ...

... legislative mecsures. Infant Mortality. Lately there has been much talk regarding mfant mortality and poor law institutior: have been subjocted to unlavenrable criticism, It may be interesting to give a few figures re infant mortality in the ...

... of the natives gave birth to a son. It is gratifying that, since the introduction in 1591 of antiscpiic treatment, the infant mortality thmu‘a tetanus, whicn prevailed previously, has been completely ehecked. Out of 27 births since that year, thero have ...

... (population 1506) number 35 (14 males aud 21 females) The proportion of 17 for ages over 70 years and the excoptionally low infant mortality proves the district to be a healthy ove. ...

... that they would die out completely, like the abori- | gines of Tasmania. Through ignorance of sanitary laws the rate of infant mortality was exceedingly high amongst them. But this being attended to during the last few years, they are now increasing in numbers ...

... is due to the fact that a considerable number go to Perth to get married. The distriet has been remarkably free from infant mortality or infectious diseases. Sueer Stock Varvation—The sheep stock on the farm of Glassie, Weem, has just been handed over ...

... in-ections disease of any kind within the burgh. In diszussiog the CAUSES OF DISEASE AND MOKTALITY the report states that the infant mortality during the past year has been excoptionally high. Out of 55 as Lhe total number of Geaths 21, or onefourth, died before ...