... ANTITICIAL FEEDING AND INFANT MORTALITY. Mr 0. Davies inquired of the Medical Officer whether he could offer any explanation why the death rate amongst infanta was so high. Dr A.varee replied that a great deal of tbe mortality wee due to had feeding. ...

... RION MORTALITY AMONG INFANTS. The Chairman thought the infant mortality under five years of age was very high. Mr Nichols' said it was constantly high in their district. The Chairman said that lectures were to to gived next winter on the care of young ...

... smallpox incidence in this country is improved sanitation, which, as Leicester's experi. coca proves, greatly lessens infant mortality, if coupled with the disuse of vaccination. The pro' posal, therefore, to make re-vaccination compulsory I at the age ...

... de . the deaths might be multiplied by a thousand weekly. Leicester, Woos it discarded vaccination, has redace! ion infant mortality to half the number that formerly died when they were all vaccinated. We anti-vaccinators demand freedom from compoiton ...

... of the heart, one from lung disease, three from marasmus, one from convulsions, and one premature birth. Again the mortality in infants bad been very high, viz., seven out of the II cases. Only one case of infections disease had been reported, viz., ...

... ill-nourished infants. .after dilution with water. many condensed milks are little better than sugar and water. This kind of infant feeding is productive of rickets and scurvy, is irritative to the intestinal canal, and leaves the infant totally bankrupt ...

... Theft diseases, which visit schools biennially, are receiving a large amount of attention at present, owing to their high mortality. The difficulty we have to contend with is their early infectivity ; practically. before their diagnostic symptoms are evident ...

... Ave days after vamination„ and asked How is the child ? The father mid,' There it is, indicating the cold body of his infant, which lay still is death. The doctor said, `Some children cannot stand any torture. The meat was moved by that word torture ...

... and 1871-Ix7B. there was in the latter a diminution in the deaths from all canoes of infante under one year and of 6.600 per million births per annum ; while the mortality canted by eight specified diseases.-either directly communicable er exacerbated by ...

... prevent epidemics, and cases and deaths are recorded at all intervals after Vaccination and re-vaccination. Moreover, the case-mortality rate is practically the same now as it was in the 18th century before vaccination was introduced, thus proving that the alleged ...

... attend the child after the vaccination if all does not go as ' , ell as could be ' , whet,. So there is a risk to the helpless infant's life and health after all ! I sincerely trust that many of your readers took doe Dote of that admission. It should lead ...

... of the case. This was so decisively adjudged as to bear down the immemorial tradition of British liberty, and place every infant under a Habeas' corpus to the wounder of the arm, In demo- cratic N. America we have seen a form of compulsion tolerated, ...