Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1860-04-25 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE DEGENERATION OF RACE.—"It cannot be too distinctly recognized," says that able writer, the Medical Officer to the Board of Health, "that a high local mortality of children must almost necessarily denote a high local prevalence of those causes which determine la degeneration of race." Debility, or imperfect nutrition, regulates, so to speak, the rate of infantile mortality The debilitated child falls an easy victim to the attacks of infectious disorders. It is unquestionable also that Infantile Diarrhcea, Mesenteric Disease or Sorofulous Swelling of the Glands of the Stomach, Water in the Head, and the convulsive disorders consequent thereon, have their origin in Constitutional Debility. Where these Disorders of Infancy are the most fatal in their effects, the survivors will be found the most sickly, and it therefore concerns the health of the adult, as well as of the infant population, to draw attention to the following easy and efficacious means of removing this debility, or low tone of vitality, prevalent amongst the young, and thereby preventing the degeneration of race. The eminent writer, Mr. Thomas blunt, observes:—" In badlynourished infants, Dr. de Jongh's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil is invaluable. The rapidity with which two or three teaspoonfuls per diem will fatten a young child is truly astonishing. The weight gained is three times the weight of the Oil swallowed, or more; and, as children like the taste of Dr. de Jongh's Oil, and when it is given them often cry for more, it appears as if there were some prospect of deliverance for the appalling multitude of children who figure in the weekly bills of mortality, issued from the office of the Registrar-General."  MVIIDER IN murdor of a peculiarlyt shocking character was perpetrated in this town at 9 o'clock on Thursday morning. A yr:ling man named Price, 34 years of age, a ehoemaker, murdered the young girl to whom he was attached, a servant t asmell inn in Deritend. The circumst,Lces under \;*:tiCh the crhne was committed are stilkh,inA in a &Wend editiou of Fur t  Lta it clear his Daily Post:--di I. iobieassna3t e s evrche.retta,elmrredt: alu.''ent t he :!.11.11:nrepertvLpd•i. Il‘k‘g.:Sf t.''alihn'rrndeials'llanneatrobdPat:rof‘' sre toe ma ca.ly hour sts -;intn. table to bebare:nt, thg eato ver the iso e else ing therea tthettse ime soll after . loloveliterr, 8 lo , shoe, eluded hisgoniralug h grasp and he left thc hol e was met by police-constable Evans, nearly opposite the place where the murder was committed. The officer had known the prisoner for some months past, but although they conversed together for a few minutes, neither in speech nor behaviour did Price give any indication of the dreadful act he evidently had in contemplation. A few minutes after, the murderer went to the house of an old washerwoman named Dames, who lives in &court a short distance from the Swan Inn. Telling her that he would give her bs., he sent Ler to Mr. Jackson's to say that her sister wanted to see Sarah Pratt. This had the effect of bringing the unsusixeting victim to Mrs. Holmes's. Of course, what passed between the parties cannot at present be blown, but just as the mistress of the house had reached her door she met the murderer Price rushing out at the door. Looking in, great was her horror at seeing the young woman she had just fetched lying literally in a pool of blood on the floor. Calling out ' Murder!' Sergeant Millard, who was not far distant, at the time, came up, and seeing the horrible spectacle, ran onto Alcester-stroet station. , Inspector Hobbs instantly sent for Dr. Jordan, of Bradford-street, who immediately attended, but life was extinct. A baker, named Powell, whose bakehouse is near the cotat, hearing the cry of murder, ran up to the spot, and saw the murderer rushing from the scene of death. With praiseworthy alacrity Powell at once put-stied and overtook Pike in Bradfoll- took him into custody, and conveyed him to the stntiou. Ilere, on being searched by the officers, a nearly new and extremely sharp shoemaker's knife, smeared with blood, was found upon him. The murder r subsequently admitted that a feeling of jealousy 11a1 prompted the crime, the deceased having retu.scd his as • dresses a few hours before the crime was contmitted. FAiti at the police-station '• I di tbo deed I know I shall be hanged for it. I did not think of it five niniut.: before." The poor girl's head is said to have been nein ly severed from her bony.  not ac