> - Drunkenn ess and Infant Mortality. — Dr Bianchi, the medical officer of the Southwark District Board of Works, in his annual report on the health of the locality, refers to the heavy mortality amongst infants under one year of age. In this class in Christchurch 76 deaths were registered, and in St. Saviour's 129 miring the year. lie is of decided opinion that a great number of these infants'. Uves would have been saved if proper care and nourishment had been afforded them. In ' consequence of the .drinking habits of both I fathers and mothers the poor children were | neglected, insufficiently clothed, and badly ' nourished withimproper and of ten insufficient food, and hence the great infantile mortality which ocours year after year.— Sanitary Record,
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Southland Times, Issue 3296, 13 January 1879, Page 3
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123Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Southland Times, Issue 3296, 13 January 1879, Page 3
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