... tPAEA . OBAT'n ABVEKTISEMENT . J STAECH POISONING has been said , on good authority , to be the main cause of infant , mortality . No farinaceous food shonltl be given to a child till it has a full month of teeth , unless snch food has been prerionsly ...

... • [ PABAGBAPn ADVEM'ISEMENT . ] STAEOH . POISONING . has been . said , on eood 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 ...

... [ PABAGBAPH ADVEBTISEMENT . I STABCH POISOHING has been said , on good authority , to hs the main canse of infant mortality . • No farinaceous food Ehoiild be given to a child till it lias a full mouth ot teeth imlcas such food has been previously niiilted ...

... George Hamilton . [ PA&AOBAPB ADVBBTISKMBOT . ] STABOH POISONING has been said , on good authorityta be the main cause of infant mortality . No farinaceous food should ba given to & child till it has a full month of teeth , unless Euch food has been previously ...

... which was very high, but only in keeping with the death rase all over the country. The birth rate was 37'40 nee 1000. The infant mortality was very striking this month, 52 6 per coot. of the total deaths. Toe majority died tram disease. of the chest. The report ...

... tuberculosis are the great in spreading the disease. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 1.7, against 2.3 1897. Tne infant mortality, that the number of deaths under one year, was 115 to each 1000, exactly the same as 1897. 'J%i# is rather under the ...

... progress . [ PAItAOBAPlI JLBVEBTISEMENi' . ] STARCH POISONING has been Eaid , on good authority , to be the ma in cause of infant mortality . No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth o ( teeth , unless such food has been previously ...

... formation of the County Council . The number was 150 , giving a death-rate of 16-476 , as . aaainst 12-663 in 1897 . The infant mortality was ' also the highest they had yet had , 30 per cent . of the deaths being of children under five years . Scarlet fever ...

... aspects of occupations suitable for women was discussed by Mrs Percy Boulnois , and Miss Isabel G . Smith dealt with infant mortality . In the evening a conversazione and reception were given by the Mayor of Southampton . ...

... due. Next came scarlet fever, causing 21 deaths, giving a percentage mortality of 3.7 among those notified. Measles accounted for 18 deaths, as *gaited, 47 last year. The infant mortality nit*, that was the number of deaths under 1 year of age to each 1000 ...

... were the two most fatal months of the year, each having 8 deaths, while March was the least fatal, having only one. The infant mortality was still very high, being 24 oat of 45, or 53 . 3. Of children under 18 months two lived for less than half-an-hour ...

... immediately following . For death takes its largest toll in tho early years of life ; and the arrest of the hig h rates of infant mortality , especially in large urban communities , is not yet ranked among the triumphs of science and civilisation . In 1897 ...