FIRST HOUR OF LIFE
SCIENTIFIC REPORT ISSUE ONINFANT DEATH LONDON, Monday. The Medical Research Council, as a result of ail investigation of the deaths of 800 infants who died in their first month, has published a remarkable report. This shows that more than two-thirds of the infants die in their early weeks from some form of asphyxia. The report suggests that doctors are backward in applying the most recent Physiological discoveries. The oldfashioned practice of smacking an infant to make it breathe is emphaticallv condemned. Details of more scientific methods are set out in the report, which says the first quarter of an hour after birth is the most dangerous period. Medical discovery could most usefully seek measures to avoid loss of life in that .period, it says.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 9
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128FIRST HOUR OF LIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 964, 6 May 1930, Page 9
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