... 1700 the deaths numbered 16 ISOO, and 15 in 1901, 8.82 per thousand, as compared with 18.34 in England and Wales! Tho infant mortality is little more than onefourth of the English average. But even half those 15 or deaths, Hamilton declares, are due fatal ...

... eliding May 24th. But low though the mortality was last week, it would have been almost a point lower lad not an Edinburgh man come down to the Docks and drowned himself. Taking it at 4.6, however, we have a rate of mortality •which must be very gratifying ...

... GIVR WATER TO INFANTS. A distinguished children's doctor believes, from his practice, that infants generally, whether brought up at the breast or artificially, are not supplied with sufficient water, the fluid portion of their food being quickly taken ...

... made for the increase of population , this number : is found to bo Vfl below tho July average of the last ten years . ' The mortality for the month was at the annual rate of 12 . 9 per thousand persons in Leilhi 13 i 5 in Aboriwni M ? . fi ^ erthy ^ . 9 in ...