... 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. ...

... were no cases of plague. INFANT MORTALITY. The deaths of children under five years of age numbered 1215. The number of children in the first year of life who died was 844, which is equivalent to 24.6 per cent, of the total mortality, and, calculated on the ...

... for February last year, infant mortality the deaths under five years (103) constituted 38 per cent., and those under one year (65) 22 per cent, of the total mortality, the latter being equivalent an annual infantile mortality of 166 per 1000 births. There ...

... specially to direct their attention to the lessening of our infant mortality by instructing ignorant and careless mothers on the subject of infant hygiene, and especially the feading of infants. They are to report on the general sanitary state of the houses ...

... they had one and two-roomed houses in which there existed sanitary accommodation, was not to he wondered at that the infant mortality was high, and the stamina of their people was low. DUNDEE NOT BEHIND. They must see that their city did not become the ...

... lessen the infantile mortality, which was very high in the city. The 1 sum required was not a very large one. They were tol l that Dundee was not increasing in population as it ought to do, and that was because of the heavy infant mortality aud child neglect ...

... of health for Dundee, is able to give the cheeVing information that for once in a way the mortality among infants and children in the city shows a big decrease. And not only so, but that the death-rate is the lowest for any August during the last four years ...

... reports that the annual rate of mortality in seventy-six great towns of England and Wales last week averaged 15.9 per 1000. THE LIFE OF THE CHILD depends suitable diet in infancy. Mothers who cannot nourish their infants or can only part should have recourse ...

... 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 ...

... number. 175, was of persons between the ages 25 and 60. The infantile mortality was equivalent rate of 106 per 1000' births, and it has to noted that the zymotic mortality in infants and children has been below the average. During the month births were ...

... which has lasted him 56 years. Dawson is to challenge Stevenson for the billiard championship. The Princess of Wales and the infant Prince continue to do well. The Earl of Rosebery is to speak in Edinburgh next week a Liberal meeting. The sum of .£3 8s was ...

... Chamberlain will for South Africa on the ioth. The incomes of Cambridge Colleges are returned £•222,779 9d. The average rate of mortality in England last week was 16.6 per thousand. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland visits King to-day. A purely formal call. Mr Chaplin ...