... He applied to the magistrates formally for a warrant, and it was refused, The CHAIRMAN called attention to the great infant mortality in the city. In the report of the medical officer he found there were N91 children who (lied whose ages wore under one ...

... year.-The Medical Officer of s Health (Dr. Piper) presenties his quarterly re- N port, which showed a large increase in infant mortality. One special feature was the number of persons who had died of heart disease, number- i ing eighteen, which was considered ...

... week, 103. Total since January Ist, 20.17. ISTARCH POISONiNGo has been said, on good authority, to be the main cause of infant mortality. No farinaceous food should be given to a child till it has a full mouth of teeth, unless such food has been previously ...

... years, he was constrained to say that If mothers would trust more to nature and less to art in feeding there little cnes, infant mortality woald be considerably less. ;SAYAGE ASSAULT UPON A NEWCASTLE POLIC-e MAN.-Yesterday, at the Newcastle Police Court. John ...

... urged that the luse of tinned separated milk was not only worthless, but injurious for children, and seriously inreased infant mortality. Mr Long, in reply, could not promise in his Food and Drugs Bill to eompel the words tun- suitable for children or adults' ...

... gives a death-rate rned o of 15.10 per 1,000 per annum. Of the whole mortality, 21 IIaat de tdths occurrsd to persons under five yeaxs of age, which is equivalent to an infant mortality of 5.01 per 1,000 per s anuum. The number of births registered darirro ...

... were 86, giving a death-rate of 18.8 per I d thousand. Thirty-one children died I na1 under one year oilage, giving an infant i e mortality of 215.2 per thousand, which 1 3,| was sadly too high. There had been a h great deal of infectious disease during e ...

... health of the adult, as welt as of the infant population, to draw attentlon to the following easy and ef~ia- cloua means of removing this debility prevalent amosget tho Iyoung. Tho ?? obaerves - In badlyenourishd infants Dr.. e Jonght-Brorn Cod~i ver Olii ...

... power of reproducing vital force, where exhanstion, especially in infants, might have ended in atrophy and death, and where no other food would digest. One of my children, nIowV a healthy infant of 14 months, weas reduced to a Living skeleton, and iu a state ...

... MACLAGAN ON 1NFANTILE MORTALITY. At the me'eting of the Hebam Ruts! Sanitary Authority, in the Court House, Hexbam, on Tuesday, Dr Maclagan, medical ofcfer o health, presented his annual report. Referring to the infantile mortality, he stated be was 1s ...

... WHY imperil yourown andchildren's health withdis. eased meat and other unwholesome food ordrugs I when the fearful annual mortality of 50,000 young children and delicate persons of all ages may easily be awrested by simply studying how to increase the vital ...

... the mortality of the period has amounted to only filtoen, and o; this number two are eleaaed as old age and general decay, one as easuality from a drunken freak, one as delirium tremeas, from, of cou.ae, the same inciting cause, and six infants, whose ...