... very' high' rate of infant mortality. It was the quarter in which diarrhoea is epidemic; and so also was scarlet fever. In the prece iing'quarter of the year, the second quarter of 1870, the mean of the 17[towna shows deatEs- of infants amounting to only ...

... they should visit the places where the infant mortality was so ?? Law-clerk thought Mr Boulter's suggestion was a very proper ?? Chairman said he was .of opinion as he had said before, that this infant mortality arose from causes which might to a very ...

... has jut bee opened in Sheffield, before Mr. Wightran crbeen in two cases of infant mortality, the first ,irner, of a child 14 weeks old. It was stated by the hiat that the infant had been vaccinated a short timne ago and that two days after the operation ...

... coroners and medical mien. The in- quest. stands adjourned, but evidence has already been iven as to the high rate of infant mortality in the borough. : A lady at the springs last summer, being desirous of o~taini55gthe recipe for making a certain pudding ...

... than elsewhere. If proper care and precaution were used, the infant mortality would not be so ?? Toogood said, perhaps no man saw more : of children than he did. Mothers brought their i infants to him when they were within two days of death, and when he ...

... annual rate of mortality to the t housad of persons living has been 16-5. I think that this rate is a satisfactory one. In Frodingham. Scun- thorpe, Bromby, and Ashby, which I class together as the r Ironstone Villages, the mortality has been at the ...

... Hawkins speaks very strongly of oi its.pernicious effects in poisoning the blood. To it P' he attributes the excessive infant, mortality in the' o' -district, and the miserabile, feeble, -brownish. a]i yellow countenances so striking among many of the ...

... n of members, and a. periodical h valuation of assets enforced. With regard to burial ta societies, it appeared that infant mortality most I r-pealed where these institutions were most; in Re.?opeation ; and one of the clauses would prohibit the A~rcb ...

... General's returns for twenty-eight of the largest English towns, includ- ing London, averaged 210 per 1,000 per annum. She infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year of age to births registered, was 172 per 1000. Ior the twenty eight ...

... permis- 'jve It is true that the death-rate in some eistrcts is low, b~ut in others it is very Mliob especinlly as regards infant mortality, and it i t the ?? lli ?? the crucial test of the t snoitay state of the agricultural labourer. A r co~tt,e for which ...

... at Leeds. The 124 deaths reported includpd 27, or 21-8 per cent. of infants under one year, and 33, or 26 6 per cent. of parsons aged (5o and upwards-the Iproportion of infant mortality being lower, whilst that of elderly persons was higher, than in the ...

... of this extensive u mortality amongst infants like Messrs. Macmillan and n Boulter Uad.-Ultimately it was resolved that the va- - rious registrars should be requested to. report to the Ciommittee as to the increase in infant mortality. .e MELBOURNE'S MU3IO-HArn ...