... 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 ...

... scarlet fever, measles, chicken-pox, whooping-cough, bowel plaints, Ac., Ac. He found by careful observation that the infant mortality under five years of age was practically unchanged. Moreover, a large proportion of our British population grows up unfit ...

... laws. Dr Smiles, in his book on Character, has the following passage, which strikes at the root of the great mortality among the infants born in this country :—. That about oae third of all the children born in this country die under three year* of ...

... during the year, of whom 117 were males and 144 females. The mortality, therefore, is at the annual rate of 2104 per tit •Nisand of the estimated population. How is this increased mortality to be accounted for ? le the first place, by the presence of ...

... religious worship. Whenever I read the decision of the Court of Session I came to the conclusion that if we wished—as every mortal being does wish—to avoid taxation, it would be unwise to have our sales of work, social meetings, 4c., in these premises, ...

... or Adams, wife of a tramp cooper named James Adams, who is spending fourteen days in the cells just now, appeared with an infant in her arms and another child barely walking on a charge of having been drunk and incapable in Castle Street on Wednesday ...