... dead child was in the room. It was swe( a distressing sight to witness, and one ceased to legas wonder at our frightful infant mortality when we their saw the condition of thousands of these sickly- whe looking and half-naked children, left to lie down oft ...

... Cooper, the medical ofeicer, being in attendance, was requested to inquire particuilasly iltO the origin of the great infant mortality which had become a characteristic of Widnes. The fiuancial statement showed that the affairs of the board wore in a ...

... Ashby, the physician Ito the General Hospital for Sick Children in Manchester, gives us an appalling pie- t' ture of the infant mortality of sevreral dis- | ticts of the city. In Hnline, for example, in 1879, nearly one-half of the deaths were c those of ...

... Dr. WVilson, medical officer for Warwick, yester- day specially directed the town conncll's attention to the excessive infant mortality In the borough last year, equalling 1,6 per 1000 births. Many deaths attributed to the wasting diseases of child- hood ...

... and Dr. Duncan) to speak upon the questions relating to puhlic health which the committee had 1 suggested for inquiry. Infant mortality was great in Liverpool; and it would be well if any plan could be adopted to reduce it. It would he even economi- cal ...

... feet by two-as it had been ad carefully excluded and diverted. As a result of this bestate of thig. prevailed a rate of infant mortality I is which was a disgrace to the township. Iealso a he warned the board against the compounding he interest, and ...

... still investigate cause and effect in foul cities with high rates of mortality, and' on the other hand in citieswbere sanitary improvements had been made, and where the rate of mortality had been propor- tionately diminished. He deprecated any return to ...

... being squa- dered in public houses. Every good object mut eventually aucceed if its advocates would only per- severe. Infant mortality, to which local inquests have often dincted a passing attention, is now alarming the guardians of the poor in several ...

... in need. It must Dur : have a very marked bearing upon the infant trib mortality of the city, and it was to be trusted by t d that the improvement shown in a decrease of ing b this mortality would be not only maintained but suum increased.-Mfr. Joha Brancker ...

... will 0 give some facts and figures illustrative of the a protective power of vaccination against smallpox; Ifa paper on infant mortality will be read by Dr. Lowndes; attention to the use of alcohol in work- e houses will be called by Dr. Kerr; and Dr. e ...

... such papers being to enlighten the people on the true nature of the Reformation in Scotland, and its blessed results. Infant mortality in the metropolis was commented upon by Mr. Wehldy at an inquest held on, Monday upon the body of a ?? which had been ...

... cent., of infants under 1 year of age, and 761, or 22-4 per cent., of persons aged 60 years and upwrards. The proportion of infant mortality I was 291, and that of elderly persons 1,7 above the a average proportion in the .18 towns. Infant mor- tolity ...