... birth-rate. The Registrar-General points out that countries with a high birth-rate are those which have a high rate of infant mortality, and that a low birth-rate does not necessarily indicate a low effective addition to the population, but, on the contrary ...

... children born die under five years of age; in others, in the royal borough of Kensington, for instance, the general rate of infant mortality is only If per cent., while in the poorer districts of this borough the infantile death-rate is as high as 50 per cent ...

... who sought to make money by poisoning scores of innocent people. One of the evils of the age is the immense amount of infant mortality which is readily preventible; it is easy to imagine how much of this is caused by unclean milk. Too often adulterators ...

... warranted now. And in our cities and slums it becomes more acutely appreciable every year. What would happen if this huge infant mortality did not occur? Well, Jethou, one of the Channel Islands, a small grassy lump near Guernsey, is colonised solely by rabbits ...

... particular spirit was short-sighted, or that it had short arms! Mr. Burns recently quoted some startling statistics of infant mortality. Amongst other things, he told us that a hundred thousand young lives are needlessly sacrificed every year, and that ...

... BORN. The humanitarians are continually crying out about the loss to the national exchequer through the high-rate of infant mortality; but the greatest loss to the national exchequer is the babies that are never born! The babies who die are the children ...

... a means of earning a livelihood the children of our poor will receive schooling in place of education. Then, too, how infant mortality would decrease if a score of educated women in every town would volunteer for work that every municipality would like ...

... incidentally, added enormously to the wealth of life insurance companies) and infant mortality has been correspondingly reduced. The death-rate 33 years ago among infants, during their first year, in Liverpool was 132 per Look), and in Sheffield of every ...

... licensed to otticiate,—Yours, ...

... race—one has been the beer, and the other the old English dish of frumenty,' made of barley corn. As Lord Robert Cecil's Infant Mortality Bill is practically a non-contentious measure, we trust its passage through the Commons this session will be facilitated ...

... th an t hi s . Th e i n f an t mortality s terrible, and such common diet as biscuits, pickles, tastes of beer, nips of cheese, fried fish and potatoes, explains it. There is no doubt whatever that thousands of infants could be saved to the nation if ...

... have a cut off our own disappointing equine namesake, one of thase days. Last year Huddersfield had the lowest infantile mortality in the history of the borough. This result is in a large measure due to the bonuses given to mothers by its chief magistrates ...