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also 11. Although it would be wrong to say that the death of any
infant cannot be prevented it is a known fact that deaths up to
the age of one month depend upon a variety of dVcumstances, many
of which are at the moment, almost outwith our control. A great
deal of work is being done in trying to reduce neo-natal mortality,
and we all look forward to the day when the neo-natal mortality
rate will have dropped as sensationally as the death rate of infants
during the latter eleven months of their first year. Meantime,,
every infant death continues to be very carefully scrutinised in
an effort to discover any factor or factors which might have
contributed to the tragic fatality.
STILL-BIRTHS
As with infant, mortality, a great deal of work is being carried
on throughout the country, in an endeavour to itemise the various
causes which lead to still-birth and to remove those factors
which contribute. Although many still births cannot under present
circumstances be prevented we are none the less certain that the
still birth rate can and should be materially reduced.