BRITAIN’S BABIES
MORTALITY STATISTICS.
[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, May 5. The Medical Research Council, on the result of an investigation into the deaths of eight hundred infants who died in the first month, have published a remarkable report showing that more than two-thirds of the infants dying in the early weeks do so from some form of asphyxia. The report suggests that the doctors are backward in applying the most recent physiological discoveries. The old-fashioned practice of smacking an infant to make it breathe is emphatically condemned. The details of more scientific methods are set out in the report. It emphasises that the first quarter of an hour after birth is the most dangerous period. It adds that medical discovery could most usefully seek for measures to avoid loss of life at this period.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 May 1930, Page 3
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