RECORD LOW DEATH RATE IN BRITAIN
LONDON, March 30 (Rec. 10.10 am.). —The annual report of the Ministry of Health, issued today, showed that Britain had the lowest death rate on record in 1948-49. The total death rate of 10.8 per thousand reflected a 20 per cent, decline m the mortality index at all ages compared with 10 years ago. Infant mortality and deaths from tuberculosis, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough all dropped to record low figures.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 April 1950, Page 5
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