... IBEVELATIONS OF A LANOA- SHIRE WORKHOUSE. If there are any people who take an interest in the question of infant mortality, they will do well to rend the report of the Lancet Sanitary Commission on the state of Marland workhoure, Rooidale. Assuming ...

... 17 were infants of two years old and under, and 9 were aged people of 60 and over. Three of the deaths were from in- fections diseases, namely, 1 from measles and 2 from smallpox. The general health of the district was good. The Infant mortality was high ...

... special inquiry has been undertaken during the past summer by the wfomen in ornto the cause s of the unusually high rate of infant mortality, and the reult seems to show most incontestably tatu improer feoding is more responsible for ienfant deaths than any ...

... sbout. h, mg and running about. Certainly germs of o1 any kind had a fair chance, if they liked, to make P an attack Infant mortality mway well be high 83 when we as the evils they are subjected to, even IN in a well-r~ld tshooL through the waat of S ...

... in the thirteen weeks included 1333, or 20.9 per cent., of infants under one year-of age, and 890, or 18.0 per cent., of persons nged 60 years I and upwards. The proportion of infant mortality I exceeded by 5.3 per cent., while that of elderly persons ...

... Alderman Dr. Bligh remarked that he had no doubt much of the infant mortality in the city was due to the presence of bacilli in milk, which was now so largely used as a food for infants. As cowkeepers and rate- payers in the city of Liverpool, we ...

... last night, a report was read from the medical officer in which attention was called to the excessively high rate of infant mortality in certain parts of the borough. FOREIGN. The occupation of Alexinatz by the Turkish troops is telegraphed from Semlin ...

... which the medical officer and his staff carried out the work 3- of inspechton in Liverpool. She referred to the rate of infant mortality, and ex-pressed a hope ] ?? the work of the association would produce sr osme beneficial effect in that direction. Having ...

... nursing and feed- ing of infants, is mentioned as the cause of many infant deaths.- Much danger arises from want of Cleanliness of the child's envirorent, &o,, affecting, as it does,-not infrequentlyf the whoesomeness of the infant food to such an extent ...

... of the population, while the mortality amongst infants alone was ten times that figure. He believed that this serious morbality was largely due to the use of acid preservatives put into the milk 4ood supplied to the infants by iheir parent. Dr. Hope stated ...

... ro-ra:' in Preston from 1670-79 was 29027 ?? '.nd from 13880-8 is wef;t 25-43, showing 4k'rS;V it o vear 4 per Cent. The infant mortality c ttsua; ?? 264 per 1000, against 17t in cltrwn W'd 144 for England and Wales. rtrs fever is uklnown in Preston. The ...

... Rsassan, stating that he l4%d good hopes of their release. INFANT MORTALITY IN NORFOLK. In reply to Mr. Bentinok, Sir G. .'nuA saidjthat the 6tatqment 0of the coroner with respect to tthe infant mortality at mneth, in Norfollc, ws grossly exaggerated. He' had ...