CHILD MORTALITY
INTERESTING FJGURES. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 11. Infant mortality statistics show that the total number of .deaths under oneyear has drooped lroni 1080 in 102/ to 9H-! a> t year, or nearly 9 per cent. The rate per thousand of live births fell from 38.71 m 1927 to 30.18 last year. This is considered a phenomenally low level, and has never before been reached in any country.
Aii examination of the figures show that far more male infants die early than females. Of the 984, 009 were males and while the number was within one of 1927, iemalcs dropped by 9b. The difference therefore was more than ever accentuated last year.
The reduction in the loss of life is principally in children over one month. The nearer to date of birth, the greater the mortality is, and evidently there is always a proportion of infants who have little or po chance of living. Of the 984 deaths 68b were due to ‘‘congenital malformations” and “diseases peculiar to early infancy and these are ail of ante-natal origin and presumably not preventible or only to a small extent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1929, Page 6
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