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...Bacteriologists, meeting in Baltimore, that he had discovered the existence of a factor in human milk which seems to make the polio virus less active. The substance (its nature is still unknown) was found in all human milk samples taken within the first five days of milk flow after childbirth. It was found in three-fourths of the samples taken in the next eleven months...
Listening Audience. In Oroville, Calif., while alone at home listening to a radio program on painless childbirth, Mrs. Joyce Chapman gave unheralded and painless birth to her first child...
...Well, bully for Drs. [Duncan] Reid and [Mandel] Cohen for injecting a little common sense into all this "natural childbirth" farrago [TIME, March 13]. Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read and his cohorts have got women feeling that they're hopeless neurotics if they don't have their baby between the bean-rows and get back to the harvest in 15 minutes...
...smoothly produced, competently played tearjerker about a self-sacrificing woman (Lizabeth Scott) who suffers & suffers. Having accidentally killed the only child that her sister (Diana Lynn) can have, she marries her brother-in-law (Robert Cummings) when his divorce comes through. Then, knowing that she must die in childbirth, she bears him a baby, leaves him to remarry her sister so that they can raise the child as a substitute for their own. The film comes from a story originally published in Reader's Digest. It is the kind of story that can be heard on the radio...
...death rate set an alltime low in 1948, the National Office of Vital Statistics reported last week. There were 1,444,337 deaths-i.e., 9.9 per 1,000 population, compared with 10.1 in 1947 and 10.0 (the previous low) in 1946. Markedly lower were deaths in childbirth (down 17%) and from syphilis (down 8%). But both heart disease (the heaviest killer-one-third of all deaths) and cancer slightly increased their toll...