... which was very high; but only in keeping with ih© death-rate all over the country. The birth-rate was 37.40 per 1000. The infant mortality was very striking this month—•*s2.6 per cent, of the total deaths. As usual at time, the majority died from diseases ...

... were of sporadic nature. During the year 80 males and 34 females were born; that is a rate 29 per 1000 population. The infant mortality (deaths under the year 1000 births) was 1417, a high rate for small urban district. Tbfeie were in all 60 deaths; 19 ...

... a of the lungs; whereas, the other hand, there had been great increase In infant mortality through tabes mcsenterica, or intestinal tuberculosis, duo to the feeding of infants on milk drawn from tubercular cows. Innumerab.e authenticated cases are on ...

... his doubts upon the mitt ex. V The proceedings occupied about an hour and a half, and attracted considerable attention. INFANT MORTALITY, OR THE WASTAGE OF HUMAN LIFE BRITISH SECTION.-Bullfinch cock-l. Charles Ayr; 2, Thomas Sharp, Uphall; 3 and special ...

... parish, las also whooping cough, and to unusual amount of diarrhoea in the neighbourhood of j Bathgate and Broxburn. The - infant mortality ! was 163, against 97 last year, and 143 the previous year. That part the report which deals with the burgh of Whitburn ...

... dangerous elements most calculated to beget and spread disease. It has been said, indeed, that a very large proportion of the infant mortality is due to tuberculous disease caused through drinking milk from diseased cows. It is surely unnecessary in this enlightened ...

... prevailed among infants much in the proportion in which milk fed band constituted their food. Dr Shakespeare declares that the causative factor these disease* was bacteria, and as these are most rapidly propagated in summer, it is at that season infant mortality ...

... infantile mortality in their respective districts. They could see that Glasgow was reducing her rote daily, and read the other day, and. most of them would have read tho same report, that for 39 completed weeks of the present year tho infantile mortality was ...

... OrVS WATKH A distinguished children’s doctor believes, from his practice, th.it infants generally, whether brought up the breast or artificially, are not supplied with sufficient water, the fluid portion their food being quickly taken up and leaving the ...

... 6122 of them succumbing infant cho- Icra In the year 1893 Straus' Slilk Charity was opened and the mortality eank if by magic. The improvement was, matter of fact, remarkable, and it amounts this-* that at tho rate mortality which prevailed in 1892 the ...

... diminished mortality, otherwise the reduction in the rate of increase would have been much greater. Last year tho death rat© stood at 15.0 per 1000 —tho lowest on record—as compared with an average of 16.7. Of tho 524,321 deaths, 108,214 were of infants under ...

... zone, grass is the most widely distributed of all vegetable beings, and at once tho typo of our life and the em Idem our mortality. Lying in the eumhine among the buttercups and the dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants ...