... not think, he said, it was the intention of those who framed the tariff to put any obstacles in the way of checking infant mortality. At the same time the law of the United States does not think it safe for scientific appliances which have been imported ...

... INFANT LIFE. i At a meeting of the Royal Statistical society in London Dr. Hugh R. Jones, of Liverpool, reitd his prize easay on The Perils and Protec- tion of Infant Life. He said the chief causes of excessive infant mortality were found to depend upon—(1) ...

... generation that the infant mortality should be so great throughout the country as it is. The bogey which attributed it to infant insurance he thought had been disposed of. Dr. Walford said that a common source of trouhle with infants was tainted milk, too ...

... againg. 2,034 last year—an increase in 1895 of 437. Councillor E. Beavan called attention to the large proportion of infant mortality in the past quarter, and asked if any explanation could be given. The Chairman said Dr. Walford (medical officer of health) ...

... I The Baby Farmer. The fertile cause of infant mortality, and of long, protracted suffering is due to the system known as baby-farming, the sufferers beeing ziriwanted children, those of poor parents, but perhaps oftenest thoso who are illegitimate, of ...

... medical officer deplore the HIGH INFANTILE MORTALITY, I but it is consoling to know that while of evory 1.000 children born in 1895 in the county, 201 died before completing the first, year of hfo, the infant mortality rate for 1896 was 1807. An interesting ...

... provide a simple, swift and certain death ? The death rate of Aberdare is exception- ally high. There is an alarming infant mortality, which is largely responsible for raising the death rate of the past quarter to 371, an increase of 155 over that of ...

... in his last annual report, where he states that the infant mortality is very excessive. (Right here is a chance for the concoctor of small jokes: he may put it in the form of a question-Can an infant be a collier ? Whilst he is enjoying his own sharpness ...

... due to overcrowding and the lodger system and in Glamorgan the conditions of living producacl i, larger percentage of infant mortality than there was in the resi of the country. He advocated better and more suitable dwellings for the people, and urged ...

... the health of the children. To one who knows Lan- cashire life, a reference to the half-timers brings to mind a high infant mortality caused by the mothers working in the mills, and putting out their in- fants to be nursed a little army of child workers ...

... wholesale baby-farming, practised by even the well-to-do married couples, and still more by the poor, and the extensive infant mortality. --0- The Empress Frederick has ordered four silk dressei for the Princess Victoria's trousseau in Athens. The silk ciresnes ...

... diseases, with a general lowering of vitality, being the inevitable accom- paniment. I THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. Infant mortality in exceptionally high in Glamorgan, and the general cause ought certainly to be investigated specially. In the urban ...