... the death-rate of the children in the district. The infant mortality per 1000 born is 301, or, in other words, one child almost dies for every threa born. In Pollokshields West the infant mortality is 102 per 1000 born, and the average over the whole ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... the lower division we have the infant schools. The North Infant School, with an attendance of 157 and a grant of £l6O, maintains its wonted high standard of tone, discipline, and instruction. The Prince Street Infant School with an average attendance ...

... pleased to cut any It t irtr and at wholesale prices. MORTALITY STATISTIC.. The number of deaths registered in the eight principal towns of Scotland during last week was 451. representing an annual mortality rate of 14.0 c; thousand of the estimated pop u l ...

... 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 ...