... 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 ...

... was to supply the poorer mothers of the borough with properly sterilised milk for their infants, all d |,j means to endeavour reduce the terrible infantile mortality. The customers of the municipal dairy number 150, the.cost them being ls a week, or a day ...

... 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 ...

... and 324 of persons * over sixty years; of the 517 in Edinburgh, 83 were of infants under one year, and 175 of \ sons over sixty years: of the 285 in Dundee. 64 were of infants under one year, and 67 of persons over sixty years; of the 271 Aberdeen, t ...

... 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 ...

... LADIES' COLUMN. WHAT SOxME FOLKS DO TO BABY. [By Freda.] Babies are the mo*t long-suffering of mortals. Their suffering is about long as their garments, I verily believe. And yet they reoeive larger 6hare of attention than they are ever likely to experience ...

... 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 ...

... trouble in securing a tenant for Dublin Castle. Still there is no telling some people's tastes. WHY CHILDREN DIE. Infantile mortality remains one of the blots on the escutcheon of our modern life. Yet the ignorance of mothers and those who take charge ...

... 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 ...

... FROM ALL QUARTERS. By Telegraph and Telephone. The infant Prince is still doing well. The Bishop of Albans was a little better last night. A Partick Bailie was fined yesterday for ill-treating a horse. Count Leo Tolstoy is suffering from inflammation ...

... these later stages in which we live the method mainly visual, and read the record with our eyes. But in the infant ages of tho world, as the infant-schools of to-day—with which may class most British Universities— the auditive method prevails, and the early ...