Control Of Whooping Cough
Last year for the first time deaths from whooping cough in the United States fell below 1000, according to Metropolitan Life Insurance Companv statisticians. The final figure, they thought, would be less than 800. This landmark in the. control of the disease was particularly significant, the statisticians said, because the number of young children in thq population had increased greatly owing to high Ifirth rates in recfcnt years—Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27526, 21 October 1950, Page 7
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