... district of Arbroath were submitted . The death-rate of . the district was 11 ' 833 , as against 13 196 last year . The infant mortality was higher than for two years prariously , beiaf ; S 3744 per lOOO . birthB . . The heaviest death-rate was in tho pariah ...

... Tccnsistent with ' Asiatic cholera . There ' ' . v ; as an abnormal amount of diarrhcca . in . the district , and tlio • infant mortality from this causo had been great , but • Dr Stylo said-he had-, never , known an ad ^ ilt to-di& . in a few hours from ...

... pnd aro pitched on the bare ground ; they cannot but be insanitary and unwholesome , especially for the children . The infant mortality is said to be very high , one witness putting it at 60 per cent . Both sexes lodge and deep in the same tent , from the ...

... therein within six months after she had given birth to a child . Ho quoted a number of statistics to prove that the rate of infant mortality was always greater in the counties v / hcre a large number of married women worked p-t , a i-mde . Sir Howard . ( Sheffield ...

... education , and no religious or moral training , and who were subjected to oviHnlliiencCT of tlio ivoret character , Tlio infant mortality was said to bo very high , one witness putting it at 50 per cent . The grossest dmnlicnnesa and intelrperance prevailed ...

... prevailed among infants much in the proportion in which milk fed band constituted their food. Dr Shakespeare declares that the causative factor these disease* was bacteria, and as these are most rapidly propagated in summer, it is at that season infant mortality ...

... MORTALITY AMONG THE REFUGEES. Tiie Standard Athens correspondent states the British Cabinet has been notified of the nrivations endured by the Thessahan refuses, S whom 600 infants have died during the past three months. ...

... THE NEW INFANT SCHOOL The new Infant School at Loanhead was opened on Monday afternoon by Rev. J. A. Burden, Chairman of Lasswade School Board, in presence of a company of some 40 ladies and gentlemen, and the infanta that are to be taught there. Among ...

... the 17 th curt . writes : — It'is quite possible , that Sir W . Scott arid 'Old Mortality ' s' son are right atter all in giving 1715 as the date ' oE Old Mortality ' s birto ; I Lave still the best of reasons for maintaininp that . 1716 is theproper ...

... I ^ indon Comity Council .. 'Under &e aMBHne law . tko regietra . tioia . of houflea wlieTB infants wero'icopt was only required Tftiere mors than ono infant less . than twelve months old was kept . Therefore any'one oould tafco any child of-less than ...

... magie spinning -wheel anil other Oungfl o { that Und , including the wonderful glass dippers which , as every -well instructed infant is aware ; were given to the girl beside the . kitchen fire because she was the only member of tha family who could get her ...

... admonished them. He said there was great mortality among Dundee children through the neglect of their parents, large number of deaths being those cf children who were overlain through one or both parents drunk. Infants were often drowned in water tubs left ...