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THE HEALTH OF MID-LOTHIAN

... heavy mortality from tuoercuiar disease, the number of deaths being, excluding those in the poorhouse and asylums, 114, or one-ninth of the total deaths, and only 15 less than the total zymotic mortality. The disease causing most of the mortality was which ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1901
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Evening News

... annually during the same three months. No doubt did. And that for a very simple reason. Infant mortality will always higher titan the mortality of children. Infant mortality, mi the United Kingdom statistics, means that among children under ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1901
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1755 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... unfortunate people, women and children, whom military award to enter foetso camps. They tatvirally * deplored the great infant mortality in the camps, but if tho Boer women failed to observe the a•dincuy rules of isn'- t:anon, it was only inevitable that ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1901
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SMALLPOX IS P-AISLET . —It is reported that another case of smallpox has occurred in Paisley . Some weeks ai

... thinnoEs of this year's contingent , it is urged that the winter of 18 EO wss the coldest of the century , and that tho infant mortality in the course of it was exceptionally high . It is certain , however , that the comparatively satisfactory fig-urea of ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1901
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

- MB CHAMBERLAIN delivered a vigorous speech on tho war at'Oupar yesterday . One passage will go loine to the

... Boer women and children--in concentration camps , where there has been a most grievous infant mortalit y . The pro-Boers have seized with avidity on this infant mortality as a result of British barbarit y . . They speak and write as if it were a crime de ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1901
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1037 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

/ FATAL'ACCIDKNT AT LocriMABES , —Janet M'Cali , fifteen years of age . daughter of Mr David M'Call , mason

... Hear ,. hear . ) . Bailio' . Urquliart ; in : secoudiug , referred , to Dundee's bad distinction . 'in tbo , matter of . infant mortality , and , the chief . factor in . 'bringing about this ' sbato of'afFaira was tho state ' ot female lab 6 nr ' ih tho ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1901
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1147 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MASTER OF ELIBANK ON THE WAR

... declared more humane men existed than those conducting operations in South Africa. They naturally deplored the great infant mortality the camps, but if the Boer womHi failed to observe the ordinary rules sanitation, it was only inevitable that those ...

Published: Monday 18 November 1901
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 865 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

▲ LIVING KACSXNZ

... accidental death, criminality; fatal influence of riooholism on descendant—diminution of the number of births, enormous infant mortality, epilepsy, idiocy, nervosity, tuberculosis, stunted growth; increasing consumption alcohol in Franco; (i) prejudicial ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1901
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 781 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... of the parents , the absolute ignorance in which the children are growing , ilp , and also to the abaormally largo infant , • mortality prevailing , one of the witnosses bafote tho Departmental Committca putting , it at 50 per cant . undor one year old ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1901
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1914 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

• UNIONIST DINNER AT WEEM

... horrors than those of starvation at the hands of prowling bands , Kaffirs and others . There has been a high percentage of infant mortality , no doubt , but such things are , unfortunately , insepatahle from war . The camps are woB managed , and the refugees ...

Published: Tuesday 05 November 1901
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1921 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CQNCENTEATIOJST SCAMPS

... troopa they must have suffered intensely through the lack of these things , '' - , Referring to the high rate ^ of infant mortality , -which is the most distressing' feature of Iho reragee cnmps , Mr Smith writes : — • ' This is no news to those who ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1901
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2493 | Page: 6 | Tags: none