NATIONAL HEALTH.
IMPROVEMENT IN BRITAIN.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 12. In liis annual report the General Medical Officer for Health, Sir George Newman, said that never before had the English people enjoyed their present measure of national health.
In the period 1871-80 the expectation of life at birth was 41 years for a boy and 44 years for a girl. To-day it is 56 for a boy and 60 for a girl. The death rate in the interval has been reduced from 21 per 1000 to 12 per 1000, and the infant mortality rate from 149 per 1000 births to 60 per 1000 births.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 244, 14 September 1932, Page 7
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105NATIONAL HEALTH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 244, 14 September 1932, Page 7
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