INFANTILE MORTALITY
DANGEROUS EARLY STAGES,
SCIENTIFIC CONCLUSIONS,
(Received 9 : a.m.) LONDON, May 6,
Tlio Medical Research Council, as the result of investigation into the deaths of 800 infants who died in the first month, has published a remarkable report showing that more, than twothirds of the infants expired in the early weeks from some form of asphyxia. The report suggests that doctors arc backward in applying the most recent physiological discoveries. The oldfashioned practice of smacking an infant to make it breathe is emphatically condemned. Details of more scientific methods are set out in the report, which emphasises that the first quarter of an hour after birth is the most dangerous period. Medical discovery could most usefully seek measures to avoid loss of life during this period.
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Northern Advocate, 7 May 1930, Page 5
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