INFANT MORTALITY.
N.Z.'S RECORD CHALLENGED. (ATTSTBALIAJC AJTD N.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION.) CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYBIOHT.) SYDNEY, April 24. The Hon. S. H, Inncs-Noad, president of the Mothers' and Babies Welfare Society, referring to Dr. Truby King's cabled statement that New Zealand's infant mortality rate was 47 against Australia's €9 per 1000 in 1921, says that the New South "Wales rate in 1922 stcod at 54 per 10C0. He claims that at the rate New South Wales is reducing the ratio it will not be long before it will overtake and, possibly, pass New Zealand's achievement of having the lowest infantile mortality rate in the world.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17747, 26 April 1923, Page 11
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103INFANT MORTALITY. Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17747, 26 April 1923, Page 11
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