NATION'S HEALTH
A STEADY IMPROVEMENT REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S REVIEW (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, October 28. (Received Oct. 28, at 11 p.m.) The Registrar-general's review lor 1934 emphasises the improving health of the nation. The death-rate was 11.8 per 1000—the lowest ever recorded. Other records include the survival rate of infants, only 59 per 1000 dying before their first birthday. The deathrate from infectious parasitic diseases was 1.3 per 1000; tuberculosis deathrate, 763 per 1,000,000. The only black spot is the lack of improvement in the death-rate of women at child birth. It has even increased slight!*: since 1933. The birth-rate was up .4 per 1000. The Registrar-general docs not comment beyond hoping that the nadir of the birth-rate was reached in 1933. The report correlated health and unemployment, showing that the death-rate was highest in districts where unemployment was the greatest.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22714, 29 October 1935, Page 9
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142NATION'S HEALTH Otago Daily Times, Issue 22714, 29 October 1935, Page 9
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