... 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 ...

... congratulated. Be is pitiel on account of his lease of life having expired, and congratulated because folk who shake otf this mortal coil on Christmas Eve are supposed to be sure of eternal happiness. In several parts of Devonshire and Cornwall the people ...

... production of milk required for me manufacture butter the winter months. COMPARATIVE MORTALITY RETURNS. referring to Ireland, attexftion may called to the excessive mortality in the Irish towns, as compared-with similar areas the rest of the Kingdom. In the ...

... under 1 year numbered 29 per cent, of the whole mortality, showing a very considerable prevcntible death-rate. With the increased water supply and the better housing of the working classes, this number infant deaths. I hope, will be gieatly diminished in ...

... remedy for the reduction of the death-rate amongst infant* is the natural one mothers nursing their children at. the breast, instead of feeding them artificially. Wherever children -are breast-fed. the mortality is • less. But oven hero education is doing great ...

... near Ilfracombe. the diminished use cows’ milk for infants and the increase of feeding mother’s milk, the medical officer of health for St. Paneras attributes the largely decreased infantile mortality in his district. ...

... advantageous—that much of this amount might saved. INFANTILE MORTALITY AND ■ MATERNITY HOMES. There are number schemes foot Australia for tho saving of infant hfp and diminution infantile mortality. A revere outbreak of typhoid, traced to dairy nsar Melbourne ...

... woman crying, whereupon took it out of its cradle and throw it into the well upon its mother, the fall instantly killing the infant. Lowe’s little boy then began to cry and call for help, and the negro procured an axe for the purpose of killing him. The ...

... deaths were due to them The death-rate under this head was 3‘63 per of average strength, against 3*Bo in 1893. From alone the mortality among native soldiers (2*87 per 1000) was about four times as great as that among European troops (0 75 per 1000.) Fevers ...

... nature was taken up that Court on Monday against woman for being found drunk while in charge ol child, aged three years, and infant, one year and four months. . case of this kind in Bathgate is rather a rare occurrence fortunately. The disputes in the Town ...

... y this fond grandmother read like the preaesuti of a fairy godmother, not things intended an every day mortal, and that mortal a» uncoiwa ous infant. her daughterin-law iarita was very fortunate, for Queen Helio ha» always striven to the full extent Her ...

... been a phenomenally low one. In Bo’uess portion, Mr Paul informed him it was a record one for lowness. Th© Grangepans mortality was infant one —6 deaths, with average age of 73.37 days, or, roughly, 21 months. In aU, II deaths were reported, giving a rat© ...