... Tuberculosis is the most important of diseases i in relation to political economy, both on account of I its high rate of mortality, the great loss entailed 0 by thre long duration of the disease, end the great danger to others from infection. 2. The chief ...

... were of children under 1 year old: and 5,745, or 58-5 per cent., were of per- sons aged 60 years and upwards. The-deaths of infants under 1 year old are equal to 86-9 per 1,000 of. vhe- births registered. In the province of Leinster the number of deaths ...

... rolls of the schools there were 572 names of Presby- terian pupils-284 boys. 164 girls, and 124 infants. 218 boys were exawmined, 97 girls, and 72 infants, and out of the total exa- mined in the three schools-namely, 387- n only two failed to pass. That ...

... in the per- son of his Grace of Bedford, has been carried off by the severe weather which has so greatly in- creased the mortality of the metropolis for more E than a month. The Duke of Bedford died this i morning, at his residence in Eaton Square, after ...

... deaths numbered 130, consumption, as usual, being the most frequent cause, and that disease vwould remain unduly frequent and mortal until an isolation hospital was provided. There, were 111 cases bf consumption under special treatment. General pIaaaly-sis ...

... half-past three this morning at the Marble Palate, Potsdam. where her Majesty was safely deiivsrer of a daughter. Both mother and infant are doing well. CEN TRAL AFRICA. BEaLiw, TUESDAY XoiGHr.-The Standard Cor- respondent says-The C-erman naval lientecana sent ...

... cent., were of children under one year old; and 6.761, or 40-0 per cent.. were of persons aged 60 and upwards. The deaths of infants under one year old are equal to 88-0 per 1,000 of the births registered. In the province of Leinster the number of deaths ...

... :fodder, for in their immature state thoy are poisonous to the cattle, among which there has already been a very serious mortality. HRere, as at Bijapur, their skeletons, picked by' birds of tprey, are to he seen in the fields. There has been -no cholera ...

... private patients in it. TEE CHIEF CAUSE OF INFrNrs' MORTALITY is at your doorsteps. If you love your children, you will not allow it to come any nearer. Tuberculosis is responsible for more infants deaths than most other diseases, and the germs of Tu ...

... they are damned into it, were it not for the fact, we may add, that, wbilst the mortality among children where proper care is exercised is only 8 per zent.,the mortality among the children of the intemperate is 70 per cent. Still, the remain- ing 30 per ...

... a great boon to the citv as also will the proposed Royal Victoria Hospital. Speaking of the in- f.antiie mortality, the report ?? deaths of infants under one vear old were d more numerous (163) than in the year 1896, when g they numbered 147. Nearly all ...

... u-ere children under l yeair old; and 8,5n9O or 39-3 per cent., were of pernont aged 611 years and upwards. The deaths of infants , under 1 year old are equal to 97-9 per 1.006 of the births registered. In the province of heinster the number of deaths ...