... most undeserved, and that in fact infant's and young children are better cared for and attedded torn Manchester than in any other leading manufacturing town in England. It Is also evident that excessive infant mortality is not the cause of the alarmingly ...

... to some extent the infant mortality in the city and many of those accidents swhich occrred. The percentage of infant mortality in the city was exceedingly large. Oat of the 14,000 of anniil deaths, there were 2000 those of infants who died ...

... exclusively devoted to the treatment of children's diseases. It is not that there is no want of such an institution; the infant mortality in our city is appallihg, as our statistics show, notwithstanding the excel- lence of our Infirmaries, and the more humble ...

... association in supplement. inog the work of the School Board in dealing with infant children. Mr J. N. CUTREErTSON, in seconding the motion, alluded to the large infant mortality In Glasgow, and remarked that this association bad been formed not a day too ...

... mother is P to he left to disgrace the earth. Ti INFANT MORTALITY IN ST KILDA.% St Kilda, an island where general sickness is I] almost unknown, is gradually losing its population from an enormous infant mortality due to tetanus. Babies horn, to all appearance ...

... interest were those dealing with the consumption of alcohol and infant mortality. The first subject 'was introduced by Dr Kerr, who read a pa[*er on Mortality from Alcohol a Preventive Mortality. lie computed that no less than 13),QU0 persona died annually ...

... uimeinbei~s Mr L.iiN desired to tfi.ow what steps had been ftaling in colinection with the motion of Mrlh Scott i as to infant mortality. Mr URE said the Committee of Hecith hadl thought proper to put the matter entirely iute the handE of Dr lussell, who ...

... to an inquiry into the cause of the number of deaths without medical attendance which took lplace in Greenock, and the infant mortality. A notion was madeo for a special compittee to make the inquiry, but an amendment, to the effect that the matter be left ...

... line of infant mortality, it is satisfactory to know that 'they are not getting worse, as many bave supposed, but, on the contrary, they are getting ' better; for it is a remarkable fact, as stated by: our Correspondeiit, that .the ratip of infant mortality ...

... to the effect of ' factory employment upon infant mortality and the health of married women. Quotig from th n Registrar-General's return, ho sai that fi r the 28 largest towns of England the infant mortality was 162 wer thousand of the children bern The ...

... secarlatina alone. -Much of the mortality, therefore, belongs to the preventable class. This should stimulate all those taking part in the cleans- inr ?? to persevere in theis praiseworthy effots. The infant mortality has fallen from 43 d3 and 40 per ...

... 1891. 'were St slatgs, with 32 per cent., and Lochee, .with 30 6 per cent. St Mary's shows the highest average rate of' infant mortality in Dundee for the five years 1891-5: Lochee shows the lowest. ' 13. An analysis of the returns for- one district in 1891 ...