... expressed at the establishment of infant milk depots at Glasgow, Dundee, and Leith. Attention is directed to a new French scheme for providing free meals to poor mothers as a practical method of fighting against infant mortality well worthy of imitation in ...

... dearer, they would make little progress in that social amelioration which was necessary if they would remove this blot of infant mortality and reinvigorate the youth of our great cities—(ar plause). In conclusion, Mr Aunand said that probably few of them had ...

... Glasgow, gave a popular lecture entitled What a City Sanitary Inspector Sees. It dealt in an interesting manner with infant mortality, and was illustrated with lantern views, the pictures being typical of child life in Glas'gow and other subjects connected ...

... it, and that a low birthrate necessarily means decadence and ultimate ruin. Those who have studied the statistics of infant mortality know that until within quite recent years the number of children who died under one year of age was appalling. The greater ...

... as Prendenreich tells us in microbes to such an exteat that there is no need to go further in search of the causes of infant mortality. MILK—AND MORE MILE. Far from being the cause of this terrible fatality, a more probable and reasonable opinon is this ...

... cities as Glasgow, where the magistracy bad sought the co-operation of the ladies of the Society in their efforts to check Infant mortality and with highly satisfactory results. Mrs Sutherland, Bay View,contributed much to the evening's enjoyment with-selections ...

... FATE OF THE INFANT, THE RATE OF MORTALITY IN SCOTLAND. CANCER RAVAGES. INTERRSTING statistical details about births, marri ages, and deaths in Scotland during 1905—the chief features of which were published some months agoare given in a Blue Book issued ...

... ANALYSIS OF DEATH RATE. The mortality in children under I year has de* creased considerably this year, the rale per 1000 births being 147*6793, in comparison with 170*83 for the immediately preceding year. This rate, however, I regret to state is too ...

... that for any previous year. Deaths of infants of less than one year old numbered 15,174; the births for the year numbered 132,005 ; and thus the infantile mortality per thousand births was 115. The infantile mortality rate is 1.2 less than that for the previous ...

... who went to their ghastly work with calm deliberation. The King and the Queen and their two sons, the younger of whom, the Infante Manuel, is little more than eighteen, were returning from their country seat at Villa Vicosa, and were driving from the railway ...

... ANALYSIS ON DEATH EATS. The mortality in children under 1 year increased considerably, the rate per 1000 births being 170.83 in comparison with 152.8384 for the immediately preceding year. It is noticeable that there has been a slight increase in the ...

... the lower division we have the infant schools. The North Infant School, with an attendance of 157 and a grant of £l6O, maintains its wonted high standard of tone, discipline, and instruction. The Prince Street Infant School with an average attendance ...