JAPANESE DEATH RATE
Lowest In Recorded History
NZPA—Reuter—Copyright Rec 11 p.m. TOKIO, Mar. 21. One Japanese was born every 11.6 seconds, and one Japanese died every 33.2 seconds, according to Government figures for 1949. The death rate is claimed to be the lowest in Japanese recorded history. Many observers claimed this was partially due to General MacArthur’s medical health reforms, the most sweeping of which was the vaccination and inoculation of the entire Japanese population against smallpox, typnus, and cholera in 1946. Government figures placed Japan’s" population at about 82,200,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27345, 22 March 1950, Page 5
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