DEATH-RATE AMONG CHILDREN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 8

DEATH-RATE AMONG CHILDREN.

It is stated in the Public Health report that the death-rato among children was very heavy last year. Ninety-seven out of every thousand males born, and eighty of every thousand females, died before attaining the age of one year —that is, one in ten of male children and one in twelve of females " If," comments Dr. Mason (Chief Health Officer), "we group those deaths due to diarrhcea and enteritis —which is much the same — along with marasmus—which often spells nothing more than bad feeding—wo have 861, out of a total of 1811, duo-.to ignorance, want of care, and impure milk. Replaco these with knowledge, love, and a clean milk supply and much would have to be subtracted from this awful toll. And yet New Zealand shows less sacrifice than any other country. Take Russia, with an averago rate over ten years of 268 deaths under one year to 1000 births, England and-Wales 147, and wo find the Dominion right at 'the bottom with 88.79 per 1000 births. Though the toll exacted bo small in comparison, yet is it too great. The earlier notification of births insisted on by the Act of 1907, which requires a birth in a city or borough to bo registered within seventy-two hours, is sure to effect much good." ________

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