The reduction of infant mortality rates will depend upon what can be done to better control the first week and the first month of life, a pediatrician on the Louisiana State university medical school faculty said * Tuesday night.
Dr, Myron Wegman submitted to. the child health committee of the Council of Social Agencies, at a meeting in 211 Camp, a report in which he outlined maternal and child health.
Citing "the tremendous strides made in reducing infant mortality," he said infant mortality in Louisiana alone has been reduced from 100 per 1000 in 1915 to 33.8 per 1000, in 1946; that the mortality rate among infants in 1910 from diarrhea alone was greater than that from all causes in 1946.
Dr. Wegman said prenatal causes were considered "the irreducible minimum" when he was a student but that "in the last few years,, we've even been able to do something about that."
