Show J r i- i BRONX BRONX- HAS lOW LQ BEATH RATE I ti l J I rid p- p J 1 pD Q D Despite pite e Congested Condi- Condi of District Health of pf f Infants Is Good I NEW NEN iv YORK l March 3 Tho The Bronx I ep reputed d to be one of oC the country's most congested communities has the lowest II baby baby death rate in the United States according to figures made public today to today to- to to-I to day day by the Babies' Babies Welfare Federation B Buffalo and PIttsburg are tied for j he highest rate of all 6 a thousand r b II Th The report which deals with infant mortality in the country's ten largest cities shows that of babies born In in the Bronx last year only died before reaching the end of the first of life liCe a percentage of f for year each thousand births In New York as a a. whole the death rate was 77 1 Los Angeles has the lowest rat rate of f ba babies th the t ten n largest cities with born and a death rate of or 66 13 a a. thousand New York City has the second lowest infant mortality rate Although Chicago and arid St St. Louis were no not included in the official birth registration registration regis regis- figures figur s an unofficial report shows Chicago to have had an infant mortality rate of 89 68 St St. Louis unofficially un unofficially un- un officially had a record of 61 7 Other official percentages follow Philadelphia Boston Detroit Detroit De De- De- De un-I un troit Baltimore I |