VITAL STATISTICS.
UNDOUBTEDLY the most satisfactory feature of the urban area vital statistics of New Zealand for 1928, as recorded in the Monthly Abstract of Statistics, is the unprecedently low x-ate of infant mortality recorded. The decline of this rate from 45.12 per 1000 live births to 41.40 in 1928 (a decrease of 3.72 per 1000 births) is indeed a remarkable achievement, and establishes a new record in this direction. The chief factors contributing towards this highly satisfactory position are the huge decreases in the number of infants dying from diarrhoea and entei'itis, congenital debility, etc., and premature birth, particular-
ly the latter. Against this, however, must be set the fact that the number of infant deaths from congenital malformation and birth injuries has increased to a considerable extent during 1928, an aspect that is not at all favourable. A very unsatisfactory aspect of the statistics for the urban areas for 1928 is the increase in the number of still-births, .the rate rising from 25.5 per 1000 births in 1927 to 30.0 per 1000 in 1928.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2270, 19 February 1929, Page 4
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