Word: infantability
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After lumping Churchill, Stalin, Willkie, Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt as people to have no truck with (TIME, May 31), Chicago's infant Republican Nationalist Revival Committee came up with its own idea of a desirable statesman...
...does the infant mortality rate in Quebec compare with that in Bombay...
Best health record in the world is that of the 87,000 workers on the plantations of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Their infant-mortality rate, prime index of health status, was only 16 infant deaths per 1,000 live births last year-enough to make any health officer whistle.* When the owners began the medical program in 1929, the rate on a typical plantation was 160.6 among half a dozen nationalities: Filipinos, Japanese, a conglomerate of Hawaiians, Chinese and Caucasians, a sprinkling of Portuguese and Puerto Ricans...
...Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, mountain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors into establishing a health research center on Oahu...
Though the birth rate has declined, more children are being raised each year, owing to the lowered infant-mortality rate...