... of the rate of mortality last week great towns of England and Wales was 19.9 per 1.000. Grave Charge against a Mother.—At *' Sessions, a carter's wife named Ann ■Ik Wa Clavton-le-Moors, was ibarged with the nranslaughtcr of her infant son Boliert, 3«> ...

... p 65-75 among In the recent decennium the mortality among infants under one year of awe, which is generally as the most sensitive test of the health of a has shown a decline. The rate of mortality among infants of both sexes the age of 12 months was egual ...

... shared | This declin anb y e mortality at all a the rate almost e4 by both sex fallen by 10.6 per cent, and that among males havis 0 per cent Again, a8 compa among females by the pr eceding decennium, the to have with the mortality ™ 1871- 80 was foun d This ...

... in the aggregate of these towns the mortality averaged 19.4. ar,d was 0.4 per j 1.000 less than in Preston, and 10.5 less than Blackburn. . . _ . . ' Among the 557 deaths Preston there were included 133 of infants under one year age, and 113 of persons ...

... A Pious A respectably-dressed woman, with an infant in her arms, en' : d the Cathedral of Antwerp one morning, when the priest was alone, busily engaged making the altar neat and tidy, and scraping off souls spats of wax which had f lien the preceding ...

... in 1892-84; and the death-rate is 11 below the mean death-rate in 1892-94. The proportion of deaths among infants is large. The Hoylake mortality includes 8 deaths ' from the principal zyniotic diseases (2 whooping cough and 6 diarrheas), 1 death from ...

... the corresponding six weeks of 1895 was 50. Of the 10 deaths attributed to diarrheal diseases not fewer than 6 were amongst infants under 12 months old. During the past 12 weeks a total 398 deaths has been registered, and of this numl>er 310 had not completed ...

... otherwise cooked. Boiled cows’ milk might not in all respects bo nourishing for infante uncooked milk, but having regard to the heavy mortality from tuberculoeis amongst infante and children in this country, the lecturer held that any such disadvantage was ...

... ANNUM. RIXORT. Dr Drina read his annual report, in whicb be stated that while their mortality for infectious disease was lower, being in fact nil, their general and infant death rates both showed a slight increase. In the matter of births, there was a slight ...

... average for correspond**? weeks of 1895 was 50. Of the 10 deaths attributed to diarrhoea 1 diseases not dew er than wae amongst infants under 12 old. During: the past 12 weeks a total 398 deaths ha* been registered, aod of this number 310 had not completed their ...

... of total mortality equal 25‘3 annually per 1.000 of the population. the deaths, 71 occurred in pnblio institutions devoted to the treatment of the sick. Of the total deaths. 116 were of children below five years of age ; these 73 were infants below 1 year ...

... 1893 there was a reduction in the general county rate equal to o*Bl per 1,000. The infant rate was 37 higher than in 1894, the chief factor in the causation of so many infant deaths may be ascribed to diarrhoea, which had an unusual prevalence throughout ...