Neonatal Deaths and Still Births in Bombay
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Neonatal death is usually understood to mean the death of a child in the first month after birth, infant death being death within the first year. The neonatal death rate is the number of neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births. The still birth rate is the number of babies of over 7 months' pregnancy who are born dead per 1,000 total births. That the subject of neonatal death and still birth is an important one from the point of view of population figures is brought out by the fact that the neonatal deaths still account for half the total infant deaths, and while, for instance, in England and Wales, the infant death rate has been reduced to half what it was in 1900, the neonatal death rate has shown little
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