... INFANTILE MORTALITY. Dr Brock, the medical officer of health for the burgh of Linlithgow, in his annual report to the Local Government Board. makes special mention of the infantile mortality in the burgh last year. He states :—The infantile mortality rate ...

... blunders we make relate to ourselves. Know thyself, is an injunction difficult to obey, each one of us believing all men mortal but ourselves. It thus arises that the first insidious approach of disease is so commonly disregarded in the hope rather than ...

... In due course the father ascended the pulpit stair, and whispered into the minister's eer, The child's name is Mary. The infant eon was then baptised in the usual form, when. soddenly, the mother, who mat in front of the pulpit, startled the congregation ...

... I have no recollection of him ; my mother could not agree with him--she was not his equal—and she left him when I was an infant, taking me with her. He never troubled himself to look for us, and I didn't trouble myself to think much about him. I grew ...

... those glorious fellows it was end in foam. enough that their fellow-men were perishire, Softly at first as the breath of an infant the and their simple, hardy natures could perbroad wind ribbon kissed the shore, scarcely ceive no special merit in their ...