AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
THE DEATH RATE. MELBOURNE, July 22. Sir Neville Howsc, at the opening or th© ttniferenc© of Ministers of He.iith of various States and their medical advisers, said the general death rate in Australia is low, and the infant mortality rate is low. The tuberculosis rate is low, but the position hi respect to scarlet fever, diphtheria and typhoid, by comparison with other countries, even backward countries, was very unsatisfactory. The typhoid death rate in country districts was still far higher than it should be, in view of the good system of local government. Tho cancer death rate, had increased, having been 70,000 in 17 years, and it would be 70,000 for tho next 10 years. Regarding puerperal mortality compared with other countries, Australia takes twelfth place.
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Grey River Argus, 23 July 1926, Page 2
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