ALCOHOL BLAMED
CHILD MORTALITY IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA Alcohol is blamed for the alarming increase in child mortality among children which has taken place in Czechoslovakia in the past few years, according to an official statement published in America. The mortality of children under 12 months, which during 1940 was 93.2 per 1000 in Bohemia and Moravia, rose during 1945 to 110.5 per 1000. In Slovakia during the same year it reached 169.5. In some districts one child out of three passed on. Y The majority of the fatalities involving tuberculosis are ascribed to excessive alcohol drinking of the parents. With the aim of preventing young people becoming addicted to alcohol, the age of those to whom alcohol can legally be sold has been raised from 18 to 20.
Furthermore, whenever pay day is on Saturday, the sale of liquor is prohibited one hour before pay time till the following Monday. More milk will be produced and a nationwide campaign of lectures and films will be inaugurated in an endeavour to bring home the dangers of excessive drinking in all sections of the population.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 92, 10 February 1947, Page 2
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182ALCOHOL BLAMED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 92, 10 February 1947, Page 2
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