PROGRESS IN REDUCTION OF NEEDLESS NEONATAL DEATHS

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The continued high neonatal mortality rate, especially of premature infants in the early days of life, must be regarded as a national reproach, and health officers must bear their full share of responsibility for these needless deaths. In Chicago during 1951, 75.8% of all infant deaths occurred during the first month; 88.1% of the deaths during the first month occurred during the first week, and 50.1% of the deaths in the first week occurred during the first day. Although only 8.2% of all the births in 1951 were premature, 69.8% of all the neonatal deaths were in premature infants. The neonatal premature mortality rate during 1951 was 171.4 per 1,000 live premature births, compared with the rate of 6.0 per 1,000 live full-term births. Although individual physicians over the years have aided in decreasing the number of these deaths, their sphere of influence usually has been so limited that each

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