GREAT CONTRAST
HEALTH IN BRITAIN & GERMANY HEAVY DIPHTHERIA MORTALITY IN REICH. FIGURES THREE TIMES GREATER THAN NORMAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, June 2.
Sir Wilson Jameson (Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health) stated at a Press conference that deaths from diphtheria in Germany last year totalled 236,000—three times Germany’s average figure. He declared that health in Britain had improved, despite four years of war. The infant mortality rate for the first quarter of 1943 was the lowest ever recorded for a first quarter of the year. $
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 4
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