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THE infant mortality rate underwent a Tdecline of more than 4 per cent per year during the period from 1933 to 1949. If this trend had continued, the infant mortality rate in the United States would now be about 15 per 1,000 live births. However, beginning about 1950, the rate of decrease dropped to about 1 per cent per year. The infant mortality rate for 1964, the latest complete year, is 24.8 per 1,000 live births. This is the lowest rate ever recorded in the United States, but it is not inconsistent with the trend for the period between 1950 and 1963. Incidentally, the infant mortality rate for the first six months of 1965 is about 3 per cent higher than the rate for the same period of 1964. The data accumulated since attention was first called to this problem of the infant mortality trend in 1960 remove any doubt, if any existed, of the change in the infant mortality trend.* The slowing down of the rate of decline in the infant mortality rate is evident in practically every segment of the infant population in the United States. The rates for both the white and nonwhite infants have been affected, as have been |
