INFANT MORTALITY RATE
N.Z. STILL THE LOWEST
New Zealand still continues to possess the lowest rate of infant mortality in the world. This fact is attributed by the Government statistician, Mr J. W. Butcher } in the Official Year Book to climate,, virility of the race the comparative absence of densely settled areas, and in part to legislative and educative measures. Mr Butcher also pays tribute to the activities of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health of Women Children. Its methods he says are being adopted to an ever increasing extent in other countries. For several yearsprior to 1938 the rate remained remarkably constant but in that year a sharp rise occurred. However, in each year since there have been decreases and new low records were established in 1940 41 42. A sharp •J » fall in the female rate was responsible for the low 1942 figure (28.71 per cent of infants under one year), the male rate being actually higher than in 1941.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 39, 12 January 1945, Page 5
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164INFANT MORTALITY RATE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 39, 12 January 1945, Page 5
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