Sudden Death in Infancy

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To the Editor: The editorial entitled "Hazards of Infancy" in the September 30 issue of the Journal is a potentially dangerous example of the uncritical acceptance of statistical conclusions without examination of the basis of the original data. Unless we are very much deceived, the majority of cases termed accidental suffocation by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company statisticians are, in fact, cases of the sudden-death syndrome of infancy.1 , 2 Doubtless, this error is a reflection of inadequate education at the grass roots level. Despite the fact that for over two decades most published work on this subject has denied suffocation as . . .

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