Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-31 | Page 5 | Infant Mortality Rate Cut in Half |

Type	issue
Date	1939-08-31
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	Infant Mortality Rate Cut in Half
Type	article
Date	1939-08-31
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	5
OCR Text	Show INFANT MORTALITY RATE CUT IN HALF NEW YORK Aug 31 W UP The mortality rate of American infants Infants in infants In- In is only half hall what it was 20 years ago Statisticians of a life insurance company Metropolitan said today today to today to- to day diarrhea and enteritis now cause only 8 per cent of first- first year deaths compared with 21 per cent 20 years ago The principal cause of first- first year deaths now is premature birth that death rate has declined one-fourth one from its 1918 peak Mortality from congenital debility debility debility de de- de- de has declined 60 per c cent nt
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