FEWER INFANTS DIE
LOW RATE MAKES WORLD RECORD IN 1928 FEWER BOYS SURVIVE Pj-ess Association WELLINGTON, Today. Excellent as has been the improvement effected in the infant mortality rate in New Zealand during recent years the further fall experienced in 192 S completely eclipses all previous achievements. In 192 S only 984 deaths of Infants under one year were recorded an improvement of 96, or nine per cent, on the 1927 figures. Whereas the infant mortality rate per thousand birthe was 38.74 in 1927, in 1928 it fell to 36.18. This phenomenally low level has never before been reached in this or any other country. With this gratifying statement the Government Statistician, in his report on the Dominion’s vital statistics for 1928, opens the section dealing with infant mortality. The figures show that many more boys fail to survive than girls.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 18
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