Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 9, DeMotte, Jasper County, 23 January 1948 — BIRTH RATE TOPS DEATHS IN STATE DURING 1947 [ARTICLE]

BIRTH RATE TOPS DEATHS IN STATE DURING 1947

Indianapolis Robert E. Serfling, director, division of public health statistics, Indiana State Board of Health, said more persons were born in Indiana last year than in the preceding year and a few more deaths occurred. Serf ling said: “The birth rate shows the greater incerase, jumping from 22.5 in 1946 to 25 in 1947. However, births during the latter part of 1947 were fewer than in the same period of 1946, indicating that the peak of the post-war increase has been passed. Only a slight increase is shown in the death rate which was 10.5 last year and 19.2 in 1946. Fewer babies died last year as compared to the preceding year. The infant mortality rate was 29.9 in 1947 and 31.7 in 1946. The lives of more mothers were saved in 1947, as shown by the maternal death rate which decreased from 1.5 in 1946 to 1.1 in 1947.”