INFANT MORTALITY
NEW ZEALAND STATISTICS. WORLD’S LOWEST PROPORTION. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Infant mortality statistics show that the total number of deaths lundor the age of one year has dropped from 1080 in 1927 to 984 last year, or nearly 9 per cent. The rate per 1000 of live births fell from ?»8.74 in 1027 to 36.18 last year. This is considered a phenomenally low level. It has never before been reached in any country. Examination of the figures shows that far more infant males die early than females. Of the 984 deaths 609 were males, and while the number was within one of the year 1927, females dropped 95. The difference, therefore, was more than ever, accentuated last year.
The reduction in the loss of life is principally in children over one month. The nearer to the date of ‘birth, the greater the. mortality is, and evidently there is always a proportion of infants who have little or oil chance of living. Of the 984 deaths, 687 were due to “congenital and “disease peculiar to early infancy,” and these are all of ante-natal origin, and presumably not preventable, or <rnly to a small extent.
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Northern Advocate, 11 June 1929, Page 9
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