MATERNAL WELFARE
DECREASE IN MORTALITY The preliminary figures of deaths from puerperal causes for 1932 have now been made available by the Census and Statistics Office to the Healtli Department, and show a gratifying decrease in comparison with the figures of previous years. The rate of 3.94 per thousand live births is the lowest recorded since 1913, and when it is remembered that, the proportion of first births is now much higher than was the case 20 years ago the result is regarded as being still move gratifying. It is particularly pleasing to notice that the number of deaths from puerperal septicaemia (excluding those following abortion) was only 12 in 1932, as compared with 10 in 1931, and 56 as recently at 1927. Deaths from septic conditions following abortion show a welcome, if small, fall, being 25 for 1932 as compared with 29 in 1931.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 2
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145MATERNAL WELFARE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 2
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