MATERNAL MORTALITY.
The official statistics in regard to the maternal death rate in the Dominion are satisfactory in that they again show a reduction in the rate. In 1920 the rate was 0.48, but each of the six years since has shown a distinct improvement, and this year the rate is 4.25, as compared with 4.65. As the outcome of the high return in 1920 the medical profession was appealed to by the then Minister of Health to assist in investigating the causes of the heavy mortality. A campaign of educative measures was undertaken by the Health Department, necesr sity for skilled ante-natal attention being made as widely known as possible. Splendid work has been done in this direction by the Plunket and other nursing societies, aided, of course, by the medical profession generally. The result has been that from being seventeenth in the list of countries where deaths from puerperal causes are recorded, New Zealand is now seventh. If the rate of improvement is'maintained there teems no reason why she should not lead the World in this section of vital statistics as she already does in those referring to the rearing of infants.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1927, Page 6
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194MATERNAL MORTALITY. Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1927, Page 6
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