... report in yesterday's Herald, of the remarks which I made in the debate on the Friendly Societies Bill? With reference to infant mortality, I said, that in proportion es the death- rate is excessive in any particalar city or tow.n it will be found that, as ...

... the buildings who were removed to hospitals, was 17 6 per 1000, which is 3-7 per 1000 below the average of London. The infant mortality was 126-4 in each 1000 births, or 37'9 below that of London. DEATH OF DR ER. MACDONALD. Dr Roderick Macdonald, coroner ...

... addressing the Academy, one woman professing. to nurse seven infants, and yet she herself had neither milk nor a cow. Fed with bad broth, exposed to every species of dirt and neglect, themiserable infant sickeas and dies. The nurse, hu'ever, writes to its mother ...

... HlORRIBLY: INFANTICDES-SIX INFANTS MURDERED BY THEIR MOTHERI. We have this week the painful duty of recording a case of tong-continuedl and inhuman depravity almost unparalleled in the annals of crime. It appears that a woman named Frances Bennett, residing ...

... The cause of !this increase of infantile mortality was evidently the epidemic increase of mea~sles, which carried witb it an increased proclivity to the fatal forms of ,U the acute respiratory diseases of infants. . The minutes of the committee' also contained ...

... both the accused to pritau, but as lirs King had an unweaned baby in her arrns, and there was no proper means of treating the infant in prison, he would give both the accnsod a ohance, and continue the case for son-enco until 27th July. EAST-ESD SEFadAEMfING ...

... thrusting aquantitvof flax or wool, or sons, similar substance, into its inouth and nostrils. and inflict- ing othel severe and mortal injuries, upon the neck and other parts of the child's body, in consequence of which it died. There were 26 witnesses in this ...

... of the -w t bank of the river Tay, situated on the east side of and adjoining the South-Inch of Perth, she did assault her infant daughter, Isabella Gordon Stewart, and did through or put her into the said river, whereby she was drowned. Accused pleaded ...

... below that for the previous week of the present year. The lowest mortality was recorded in Aberdeen, viz., 16-7 per thousand: and the highest in Perth, viz., 25 5 per thousand. The mortality from the seven most familiar zymotic dismeayses was at the rate ...

... housebreaking, transportation for seven 4 years. Janet M'Donald Montrose, charged with culpable e honmir!iil, committed on her infant daughter on this 29th t of Atigust last, pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to six t months' imprisonment in Moontrose Jail ...

... warning or cansc,the infant rushed off the pave- ment and fell right under the horses' feet. Webster did his best to avert any accident by instantly pulling up tile horses, but bcfore le was able to (lo to the off horse had struck the infant, whose heeld was ...

... Crombie, flaxdresser, and Margaret Robertson, in the Meadowsido Road, Dundee, stabbing and cutting the for- mer, whereby he was mortally wounded, and died immedi- ately thereatter. The prisoners pled Not Guilty. After several witnesses had been examined, the ...