... week, 103. Total since January Ist, 20.17. ISTARCH POISONiNGo has been said, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... urged that the luse of tinned separated milk was not only worthless, but injurious for children, and seriously inreased infant mortality. Mr Long, in reply, could not promise in his Food and Drugs Bill to eompel the words tun- suitable for children or adults' ...

... gives a death-rate rned o of 15.10 per 1,000 per annum. Of the whole mortality, 21 IIaat de tdths occurrsd to persons under five yeaxs of age, which is equivalent to an infant mortality of 5.01 per 1,000 per s anuum. The number of births registered darirro ...

... were 86, giving a death-rate of 18.8 per I d thousand. Thirty-one children died I na1 under one year oilage, giving an infant i e mortality of 215.2 per thousand, which 1 3,| was sadly too high. There had been a h great deal of infectious disease during e ...