DEATH RATE
DECLINE NOTED IN BRITAIN.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, September 12
In bis annual report, the General Medical Officer of Health, Sir George Newman, said that never before had English people enjoyed the present measure of national health. In 1871-80 the expectation of - life at birth was 41 years for a boy and 44 years for a girl. To-day it was 56 years for a boy, and 60 for a girl. The death rate :n the interval had been reduced from 21 per thousand to 12 per thousand,, and the infant mortality rate from 149 per thousand births to 60 per thousand births.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1932, Page 5
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