... animal food altogether. The death-rate among both blacks and whites in December was three times the average, and the infant mortality is very high. Privations are beginning to tell, adds the correspondent, and until we get relief in the shape of provisions ...

... fine of 20s and losts was imposed. A paitieular feature in the report was that attention was directed to excess in the infant mortality during the past ye.trs, not due to infectious diseases, but to general causes. Among general causes insufficient nursing ...

... life to keeping lodging houses for summer visitors. In many former reports attention had been called to the exaggerated infant mortality due to deficiencies in domestic care, treatment and nursing. As one means of education and of spreading knowledge in ...

... the ages of one and five years. In the absence of any epidemic the infant n ortality was too high. The main cause was to re found in tbe character of the houses in ■which the infants were born Jmd died. They were hcuies fauitly in construction and design ...

... with monthly statement of the rate of births and mortality. His opinion was that in small places, especially in watering places they were not desirable, as email figures in calculating rates of mortality were fallacious, in many instances; and when they ...

... Priest. From the Ordering of Priests, we now pass to the Office for the Baptism of Infants. Her we are confronted with Godfathers and God- mothers who ia the infant's name promise to renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the ...

... personal effort for the good of souls was effectually learned by a city minister's wife the other day. She was entertain- ing the infant class in her parlour. Among the in- fants was a sweet little three-year-old cherub, with flowing brown curls, large blue eyes ...

... ; an obituary notice of two columns, on the death of au infant three months old deeming it rather too long and for which refusal the writer stopped ids paper a,1 chaUennerl the editor to mortal comlat. It is daii^ rous to editors in Ohio to have infanta ...

... same period the emigration of natives of these islands amounted to 59,940. So that the actual gain, and this exclusively in infants, was in round figures 64,000. From the point of view of industrial force, indeed, we were apparently weaker at the end of ...

... infantry was first used by the Spaniards, in the wards with the Moors, to designate the body-guard of a royal prince, or infante. It was later extended to the entire body of foot soldiers, and finally adopted throughout Europe. IN Beme, Switzerland, a ...

... suminming up said there was in the country at large a tremendous mortality among infants, and this Act had been passed for the more effectual protection of infant le life. Where more than one infant was kept for hire or reward it was required that the place ...

... later years of life, and the general conditions indicate the same common degenerancy incidental to age. The death rate of infants calculated upon those born during the yearj was satisfactory. Generally the sanitary condition of the district called for ...