INFANTILE DEATH RATE.
NEW ZEALAND’S GOOD POSITION. TRIBUTE TO PLUNKET SYSTEM. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Feb. 26. 11.L5 a.m.) MELBOURNE Feb. 26. Giving evidence before tlie Federal Health Commission, Dr. Springthorpe said that from IMS to .1022 Australia lost by death 112,677 children under the age of five years. The Plunket system in New Zealand had reduced a corresponding death rate to. three per thousand. The Commonwealth infantile death rate was sixty-one per thousand, as compared with forty-one in New Zealand. Victoria, has the highest infantile death rate.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 February 1925, Page 7
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