LOWEST IN THE WORLD
NEW ZEALAND DEATH RATE,
Speaking at the Hospitals Conference yesterday, the Minister of Public Health (Hon. G. "W. Russell) gavo some interesting figures relating to the New Zealand death, rato. "The death rate in New Zealand," ho said, "is the lowest in the world." During 1915, 19,965 deaths, were registered, which was 9.06 per' thousand of the mean population. In Australia, where the conditions were similar to New Zealand conditions, the Commonwealth average was 10.66. West Australia was 9.28, and the rate in Australia as a whole went up as high as 11.09. In Dcumark the rato was 12.6. in England /and Wales 14, Scotland '15.5, Ireland '16.3, United States 13.6, Germany Is, France 9.6, Italy 17.9, and Ceylon 32.2.
Mr. Uussell claimed lhat besides our fine climate, good drainage, good hospitals, etc., which were in part responsible for our low death rate, a good deal of credit wa» due- to the Health Department. As to the death rates tjf children, in 1914 the proportion of deaths of males was 16.9 per thousand against 38.1 in England and Wales, and 13-1 of females, as against 31.7 in England and Wales. It would thus bo seen how far ahead of the Motherland New Zealand had progressed in this matter.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2974, 11 January 1917, Page 3
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