... of the Poor to take immediate steps to check the existing excesses and needless mortality amongst Ypung and helpless children. The first great cause of infant mortality, against which all others sink into insig. nificance, is put in a nutshell: Brought ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. a m, AMONG the many subjects which have engagell Ope bthe attentioni oI the S ocial Science Congress now an ~ assmbledat Yrk,. none, perhaps, possesses a inore mw Ipainful interest than the vast mortality which in ep tsome parts of the ...

... INFANT MORTALIT Y A highly-important subject, concerning as it annnally does thousands of lives in the United Kingdom, bas becn lately brought prominently before the public, with respect to the mortality which prevails to un alarming and fearful Iextent ...

... cent. That is to say, the mortality among infants less than twelve mouths old was not a great deal short of being three times as high as among chil- dren under five, and was actually more than eight times as great as the mortality of the whole population ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. n TO THE EDITORS OF THE LEEDS MERCURY. 1 GENTLEMEN,-In your leading article of the 28th . on Infant Mortality many reasons have beeR given for its e increase. One more novel than the rest Mr. 1kin has in- ,3 troduced, namely, the existence ...

... T INFANT MORTALITY. , I . , . ., I , l_ i , . I. I t A paper was read before the Statistical Society, o? London, last week, by Dr. W. Farr, FiRS., on the Mortality of children in the principal statfs of Europe, and as some of the faeds relating thereto ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. The Registrar-General has from time to time alloed att ntion to the excessive mortality among very young children in the manufacturing districts. Dr. Greenhow was deputed to inquire into the cause of this mortality, and his reporb has ...

... INFANT MORTALITY. TO THEU nrrons or TreE T traroRPOO tR ,T. Gentlemen,-I observe, throagh the medium of your columns, that the question of infant mortality has been again brought prominently before the public, and may be shortly the means of further ...

... Frrroes OF TEE LIVERPOOL MrC:UrY. G(entlemen,-The close of the year brings with ft the usu1l star-tling, statistics of infant mortality. Cnis-ear proves no exception to previous years. The question still remnains ?? nothing be done? A few years ago the ...

... required to arrest the apparent indifference which exists amongst our population to the destruction of infant life. The increase of infant mortality, under the head of ' Suffocation, is not confined to our parish, but embraces the whole metro- polis ...

... serious a mortality among infants. In Coseley, about where the infant death-rate is higher than usual, Mr. Cleudinnen i says: -The cause, I fear, is to be found in the gross ignorance of the working classes in regard to the feeding of infants. It would ...

... tihe inimiation to devote any prolonged study to the perusal of the morning papers. ' It results from my inquiry that infant mortality is great among news- papors, ns it is among human beings. If I included weekly papers the number both of births and deazths ...