MORTALITY TOO HIGH
A!OTHERS AND AIONTH-OLD
INFANTS
HEALTH AIINISTEB’S WARNING
WELLINGTON, May 29.
“There is a gap that lies between our success iu> ante-natal work and the low mortality rate of infants after the first month of life.” declared the Alinister of Health, the Hon. A. J‘. Stallworthy, at the -annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the Plunkeit Society last evening.
The comparatively high ' maternal mortality rate and the anomalously high infantile mortality rate in the first month are significant of the gap which must be filled by better service somewhere, somehow.' With the development of our aiite-natal and post-natal services more searching light will be focussed upon the gap referred to, and it may be our midwifery service, or lack of service, will then be asked to explain. Progressive- New Zealand can never- rest while our death rate of babies before one month of age is double that in Holland, combined with a higher maternal mortality rate.’’
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10912, 1 June 1929, Page 3
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