HEALTHIER BABIES
FEWER DEATHS IN U.lv. LONDON, Aug. 14. Only one baby now dies during the hot summer months for every seven or eight who died at the end of the nineteenth century. The three months of July, August and September, which used to be the most dangerous to infant lives, are now the safest period of the year. These are the conclusions drawn by Ministry of Health experts from the infantile mortality figures for 1936, published by the Ministry. The death rate last year per 1000 live births of children under 12 months was 59, compared with an average of 156 per year in 1896-1900. The rate in July, August and September was only 43, as against an average of 212 for the same months in 1896-1900.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19453, 12 October 1937, Page 15
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