... self-inflicted, so that there were deaths belonging to the district (or 9 per 1,000) frora natural causes during tbe year. Infant mortality still showed no diminution. ...

... age ; 47 per cent of children & vrliile 20 per Cent, ot the deaths were those of persons over sixty years of age. The infant mortality during the past five weeks was again very high, and partly accounts for the increased death-rate, which is not due to ...

... proportion was 41 per cent. In 1886 the infantile mortality was 47 per cent.; in 1887 was percent.; in 1889 Dr Munro observed; —The infantile mortality rate—the pro. portion borne by the deaths of infants under one year to the total births—is at once the ...

... amounted to 109 ; if these were deducted, the death-rate for the year would only 19*031. The infantile mortality rate, that is, the proportion deaths infants under ens year births, was 167. Tbe sate is considerably above the mean rate the decennium, 152; the ...

... father would teach child to do all within his ability help himself, and so develop the powers with which he is endowed '! Only infants are supposed to perfectly helpiesa. It seem that what you say ought true, and yet have always half feared Godthat ia, when ...