... POINTS FOR MOTHERS. Infantile mortality is discussed at some length by Dr Stewart, who points out that the number of infants under one year old who died was 66, a decrease of 25 as compared with the previous year, giving an infantile deathrate of 83.5 ...

... the City, is distinguished by reason of the numerous new records which it chronicles. As regards the general mortality, deaths among infants ana deat'as from consumption, the rate was the lowest yet recorded in the annals of the city; while, in Dr Stewart's ...

... high old age mortality. On the other hand, Perth for years has been favoured with a low infantile rate, and these two factors, a low infant and a high old age mortality, are about the only pleasant features which can be extracted from Mortality returns. Deaths ...

... cultivation, therefore, is of primary importance, and should begin at the earliest stage of life. But when we see how young infants are permitted, by the indulgence of foolish mothers, to defy them and their nurses, to struggle and scream and kick in their ...