LOWEST DEATH RATE
BRITAIN'S VITAL STATISTICS
(British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
RUGBY, September 15. (Received September 16, at 10 a.m.) The Ministry of Health preparations in anticipation of war emergency requirements involving the provision of new services now in operation are dealt with in the Ministry’s report for the year ended March, which records the establishment of two new divisions for coping with the treatment of air raid casualties and evacuation work. The death rate for the year was the lowest over recorded, while there was a slight upward trend in the birthrate. Maternal mortality for the first time fell below three per thousand births. Infantile mortality also reached new low records, and deaths from tuberculosis fell sharply. Nearly 102,000 houses were completed by local authorities in the year, and since the last war the total number erected is equal to the complete rebuilding of six of the largest provincial cities.
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Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 16
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152LOWEST DEATH RATE Evening Star, Issue 23373, 16 September 1939, Page 16
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