MORTALITY: Efforts to reduce the U.S. infant...
MORTALITY: Efforts to reduce the U.S. infant mortality rate have faltered (A1), but Orange County’s figures are moving in the right direction. . . . Overall, deaths per 1,000 live births dropped from 7.6 in 1987 to 6.8 in 1988, according to the March of Dimes. . . . The “mortality gap” between white and black babies also is reversed here, with white infants dying at a higher rate than blacks, Latinos or Asians.
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