INFANT MORTALITY RATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19558, 10 February 1927, Page 10

INFANT MORTALITY RATES.

RECORD OF WORLD'S CITIES

AUCKLAND THIRD ON LIST.

, New Zealand has an unchallenged leadership of the .world in respect of infant mortality, the rate having been reduced to just under 40 per thousand births' in 1925. The mortality is slightly higher in the urban areas than in the rest of the Dominion, but a'return published in the Abstract of Statistics shtfws that only one city has a lower mortality than the best records in New Zealand. This is Amsterdam, a city with a population of 650,00Q, where the infant mortality in 1925 was 36 I per thousand births. Dunedin comes second with 41 and Auckland third with 43, the last two being tho rates for 1926. Oslo and Stockholm also have a rate of 43 per 1000. Wellington is next with 45. Then follow Adelaide (49) and Brisbane (50). Christchurch comes ninth in the international list with 54. The rates then rise in the following order:— San Francisco, 56; Sydney, 57; Melbourne, 60; New York, 65; Perth, 66; London, 67; Hobart, 68; Copenhagen, 68; Chicago, 75; Toronto, 77; Antwerp, 79; Paris, 89; Manchester, 92; Edinburgh, 96; Liverpool, 98; Vienna, 99; Berlin, 102; Glasgow, 102; Belfast, 104; Prague, 110; Dublin, 111; Budapest, 121; Warsaw, 158; Colombo, 240; Bombay, 356.