Causes of Death Amongst Women.-

The highest mortality of English women by consumption, may be ascribed partly to the indoor life which they lead, and partly to the compression preventing the expansion of the chest, by costume. In both ways they are deprived of free draughts of vital air, and the altered blood deposites [deposits] tuberculous [tuberculosis] matter, with a fatal, unatural [unnatural] facility. 31,000 English women died in one year of this incurable malady.-Will not this impressive fact induce persons of rank and influence to set their country-women right in the article of dress, and lead them to abandon a practice which disfigures the body, strangles the chest, produces nervous or other disorders, and has an unquestionable tendency to implant an incurable hectic-malady in the frame?-Girls have no more need of artificial bones and bandages than boys.-English papers.