Word: stillbirths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Ryle suggested that doctors should look for answers to some unexplored questions: What makes healthy people healthy? Why has the prevalence of intestinal ulcers, once rare, risen so enormously in the 20th Century? Why did the stillbirth rate in Wales, and tuberculosis in Britain, drop sharply during the war? Why do workingmen die of stomach and skin cancer twice as often as professional men? Why do doctors have twelve times as high a death rate from angina pectoris as farm workers...