... NOTES ON NEWS. The attention of the Home iXFAI-fT Secretary is being given at MORTALITY. this moment tc the ex- cessive infant mortality in certain artisan towns where women arc largely engaged in factory labour. The subject has been brought forward by ...

... I. was unable to walk when he was five years old, and was always in after life weak on his feet. The amazing rate of infant mortality in former times was largely due to this custom, by which the arms were fastened to ths sides, and the legs stretched ...

... RATE OF MORTALITY. The Registrar General reports that the average rate of mortality last week in the 33 great towns of England and Wales averaged 19-2 per 1,000 of their aggregate population. The rate was in Bristol 16, Cardiff 21, Swansea 17. In Swansea ...

... RATE^OF MORTALITY.—The Registrar- General reports that the average rate of mortality last week in the 33 great towns of England and Wales averaged 19*9 per 1000 of their aggregate popula- tion. The rate was highest in Bradford (25), lowest in Cardiff ...

... plain speaking in regard to the terribly high mortality of children in that town. The chair- man of the Public Health Committee tried to discredit his statements by alleging that the death-rate of infants under one year old compared favourably with other ...

... VITAL STATISTICS. The Registrar-General reports that the annual rate of mortality in the 33 great towns of Eng- land and Wrales last week averages 19*6 per 1,000 of their aggregate population. The rate was in Bristol, 19 Cardiff, 16; Swansea, 15. In Swansea ...

... HEALTH STATISTICS. The Registrar-General reports that the anmuu rate of mortality last week in the 33 great towns of England and Wales averaged 20-9 per 1,000 of their aggregate population. The rate was— Bristol, 20; Cardiff, 17; London. 20; Swansea, ...

... againt a rate of 1*62 in the large towns of the country. The mortality from zymotic diseases had shown a steady decline for the past five quarters, and the last report showed the lowest mortality of any. Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 136 deaths ...

... THE'DEATH RATE.—The Registrar-General re. ports that during the past week the annual rate of mortality in the 33 great towns of England and Wales averaged 2¡2'6 per 1000 of their aggregate population. The rates were :—Preston (highest) 40; Derby (lowest) ...

... be held to-morrow week. DEATH OF A2* INFANT. An inquest was held at the Clarendon Inn, Swansea, on Tuesday, before the Deputy I Coroner (Mr. Talfourd Strick) on the body of William John Guard, a newly-born infant, the son of John Guard, a labourer in ...

... cheering from the spec- tatorg, the corpora.1 and his companion are borne otf in safety, but, G-eneral Roquebert has been mortally woui;(.ed. Tie is carried in upoc a litter, and in his la,^ agony bifjsses 'Emmeline,' who is left in charge of the old corporal ...

... Henry Crutchley, a. young married man, was committed to gaol for three months with hard labour, for brutally beating his infant son, aged eleven months. The Rev. Dr. Williamson, vicar of St. James's, Notting-hill, was, at St. Paul's Reetorv, Old Charl- ...