MOTHERHOOD DEATHS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 7

MOTHERHOOD DEATHS.

LONDON DOCTOR'S COMMENT.

(Received 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. I Dr. T. G. Stevens, consulting obstetrician to St. Mary's Hospital, London, arrived on the liner Maloja on a holiday 'visit to Sydney and New Zealand. He said reduction in maternal mortality was still the great problem confronting the medical world. There did not seem to be any great advance in this sphere of research and the wonder was that maternal mortality was not greater. BRITISH DEATH RATES. LIGHT IN LONDON SUBURBS. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, March 16. The Registrar-General *has published a report by the Government actuary on mortality experience in England and Wales in 1930, 1931 and 1932. An examination of rates of mortality at individual ages shows that a great improvement in the vitality of the people has taken place at all but most advanced ages.

An investigation with reference to geographical situation reveals that London suburbs are subject to a much lighter death rate than the country as a whole in respect to both sexes. It is found, in fact, when the figures are compared with those for other urban areas, that the outer ring of London is conspicuous for lightness of its death rate over the whole span of life.