... infancy, and to a smaller degree in after years. Owing to the progress of hygiene and medical science, the causes of infant mortality have been largely eliminated, the reefs at the commencement of the voyage of life are in the main avokied, sod this al:verso ...

... beyond the expectations of the most sanguine. Miss Barrett points with pardonable pride to the small rate of mortality in the Home. Our mortality, she says, contrary to the usual experience in homee for young children, is singularly small; it is, in fact ...