High Death Rate
About 1000 children die every day in Peru (population 13 million), most of them from infectious diseases, a medical congress in Lima was told. The rate might be even higher, a speaker said, because of unreported deaths in the mountain and jungle back country.—Lima, May. 13.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 17
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