... such as Oldham, Bolton. sad Stockport.-I sm , WAYILL J& AN M. THE BABIES-AN APPEAL. Gla.gow, 22d April, 1883. SIR,-Tbs infant mortality in Glasgow, resulting tn a treat extteot from prevertibli eaaes, appears to require thst something should be doneto reoedy ...

... proper to bear in mind, at the same time, that babies and infants are not synonymous terms in England. A baby may properly be called an infant, but, on the other hand, an English infant may be a man-child twenty years of age and upwards of six feet ...

... and are pitched on the bare ground ; they cannot hlot be insanitary and unwholesone, especially for the children. 2he infant mortality is said to be very high, one witness putting it at SO per cent. Both sexes lodge and sleep in the same tent, from the ...

... Glasgow at fir: ears and under as 6451, and the deaths at all the other ages as 7461. The infant mortality is thus only within a thousand of being equal to the mortality at all other ages. This is surely a fact melancholy enough to make philanthropists ?? ...

... soothing her infant The wonder isi that we do not hear of more Ti cases than app in the public prints of the an poisoning of young infants through the use Pi of these rediesi HIt is, ndeed,. to be feared 7 .that a certain percentage of infant mortality th is ...

... showed that the t - niumber 6f' deaths during the month of December a Iwas 48 as against 40 in the previous month. The u infant mortality formed o6 per cent. of the ji total deaths, and during 'the last seven months: n it had been 60 per cent, of the whole ...

... of founding an hospital for the recoption and-treat- nvent of sick children. 'When we consider the vast ,amouiit of 'infant mortality in ,all .large' itie, and t when we are informed that out of 12,415 deaths-which , occurred in Glasgowiy in; 16O, no ...

... that it is commonly admitted that e the infantile mortality tests the health of a city, and a ' in this respect Glasgow is painfully prominent., We v lanient the magnitude of the infailt mortality- of they c bt u li.n si-e aver that it is iiot to he ...

... that in Prussia, where this department of surgery is confined to women, except in cases of great danger arid difficulty, infant mortality is three times greater in proportion to the population than it is in England. It is the mis- fortune of a movement of ...

... s0, Leeds 2%, and Sfiefiield 27. The ~rthree features of Glasgow mortality are pulmonary Idiseas,15 iecticosdiseases(p3articularly'in children), and the high rat-, of infant mortality. The popu- slation, of Glas ow is in the proportion of 89 to the acre ...

... talked about, and which many f of uls believed in, we would have a great a a- diminution in 'the infant mortality' among of the working classes, which mortality, at least ne: -in great' towns, was at present exeessive. 6f t Again, we would have, as in the ...

... gave rise to many interest- ing discussions. As is usual in all snucb medical a cng res6se the never-ending question of infant mortality was fully discussed, but little practical results are as vet forthcoming. Dr Corlield, of Liidnen, contributed a paper ...