INFANT MORTALITY
INVESTIGATION IN ENGLAND, MEDICAL COUNCIL’S REPORT. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 5. (Received May 6, at 1 a.m.) The Medical Research Council, as a result of an investigation into the deaths of 800 infants who died in their first month, has published a remarkable report showing that the deaths of more than two-thirds of the infants who die in their early weeks are caused by some form of asphyxia. The report suggests that doctors are backward- in applying the most recent physiological discoveries, and the oldfashioned practice of smacking an infant to make it breathe is emphatically condemned. Details of more ' scientific methods are §et out in the report, which emphasises that the first quarter of an hour after birth is the most dangerous period, and medical discovery could most usefully seek measures to avoid loss of life during this period, .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21018, 6 May 1930, Page 9
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