MORE BABIES AND FEWER DEATHS
Rccei\cd -Monday, .8.29 p.m. UAXBFRRA, July 29. Cnnberru is tlie liealtliiest locality in Australia, ficcordiug lo tlie Comnionwealtli Statisticinn, Dr, Roland Wilsom It Ims tlie lowest infantile niortality rnte of 12.35 deatlis per thousaiul oi tlie jiopululion (('oinmonwealth average ,1,5 29.38), ihe highest birlhrate of 27.-14 j per' thousand of tlie pojiulntion (Com | inonwealth average 21.97), tlie lowest ! death rate of 1.95 per thousand { (Join ! inonwealth average 9.52) and lowest I ' nnuriage, rate 7.82 (Uouimonweall h i average 8.51). ' The liigh birthrate is attributed part ! lv to security of employnient and partly : to tlie fiee hosjiital treutment extended 1 to periiianent Canberra residents.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 July 1946, Page 5
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