... INFANT MORTALITY IN CAPE COLONY. STARTLING FIGURES. Mr Chamberlain asked for statistics regarding child mortality in Cape Colony, and a memorandum on the subject was prepared by Dr Gregory, Medical Officer of Health for Cape Colony. Among other things ...

... in the last four years 2 were over ninety, over eighty, 6 over seventy, 3 over sixty-five, and only 9 under that age. Infant mortality almost unknown, only 2 deaths being registered that time. ...

... Normandy, where alcoholism has seized the people with truly «larmmg intensity, the number of stillborn children and cases of infant mortality has increased per cent.; the number refused on the ground health has trebled ; marriages have diminished one-eighth ; ...

... Clay buildings—no fireplaces—furnished with dirty skins for bedding. and over-run with pigs and poultry. No wonder the infant mortality is high. Mr Cameron. who has made some interesting experiments in rifle practice when in Africa. was good enough to ...

... the concentration camps. The statistics published to-day of the infant mortality in Cape Colony must also receive careful consideration in connection with the question of child mortality in the camps. The figures relating to the death - rate of European ...

... Clay buildings —no fireplaces—furnished with dirty skins for bedding, and over-run with pigs and poultry. No wonder the infant mortality is high. BRITISH AND 11Qt11 Mr Cameron, who has. made some interesting experiments in rifle practice when in Africa ...

... LEVEN. Registrar's Returns.—A heavy mortality among infants is tlie outstanding feature in the 1901 returns, out of 107 being children under 18 months. There were births and marriages, and the previous year the figures were 190 births, marriages, and ...

... the events which we are told are occurring France, and much that see going on before our eyes in this country, the sickly infants, the puny children, the stunted men and women, the feeble intellects, the morbid nervous systems which occur among the offspring ...