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Preparing to celebrate the end of his first year as Nazi Health Führer, Dr. Conti distributed to U. S. teachers and doctors good-looking statistics on German health. The statistics are correct. But, in a hard little book (Heil Hunger!-Alliance Books-$1.75), Dr. Martin Gumpert, former head of the City Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases in Berlin, now a refugee in Manhattan, made Dr. Conti's figures prove an ugly picture of deterioration in Naziland. Besides Dr. Conti's figures Dr. Gumpert also used other official Government figures and many hiding in German medical...
Birth Rate. In 1932, says Dr. Conti, the German birth rate was 14.8 per thousand; in 1939 it rose to 20.7. True-but even in 1923, worst year of the German depression, there were 21.2 babies born to every thousand Germans. Twenty Nazi babies per thousand is nothing to boast about in comparison with Poland's 25, Yugoslavia's 29, Rumania...
Infant Mortality. "In spite of the rapid rise in births," says Dr. Conti, "infant mortality in Germany has declined considerably. With [a mortality rate of 6%] . . . Germany takes its place among the ranks of the more fortunate nations...
...infant death rate for 1937, says Dr. Gumpert, represents a rise of 1.5% over the previous year in the cities. Manhattan lost 4.5% of its babies; Holland lost 3.8%. And Mother Conti should have a hard job explaining to her son why cases of puerperal (childbed) fever jumped from...
Tuberculosis. In 1923, says Dr. Conti, 15 out of every 10,000 deaths were caused by tuberculosis; by 1936 this dropped to seven...