As he crossed London's Waterloo Bridge one September afternoon in 1978,
a middle-aged foreigner was jostled by a man with an umbrella. The
encounter looked as harmless as the weather; in fact, it was to recall
the more lurid adventures of 007. For the foreigner was Bulgarian
Georgi Markov, the stranger was a hired assassin, and the umbrella tip
held a pellet loaded with ricin, a deadly poison. The notorious
"umbrella murder" occurred because of the information contained in this
chilling memoir, written after the...put prone in the years 1993-1997 but the prone position has progressively decreased from 13% of children being put prone in 1994 to only 2% in 1997. The profile of the Irish SIDS cases is similar to that of SIDS cases in other countries following similar RTR campaigns with a male predominance, the characteristic clustering of deaths in the first six months of life and the majority of cases (75%) occuring in the night sleep period. The loss of the seasonal variation of the time of death is also shown and factors such as lower socio-economic status, unemployment and medical card eligibility were seen in higher proportions in SIDS families than in the general population. A high percentage of SIDS mothers smoked (73%). Higher smoking rates were seen