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EL PASO HERALD-POSTRITE LOWERED■Only 94 Reported in July This Year Against 259 LastMembers or the cifcy-counly health department continued, their campaign successfully in July to lower the infant mortality rate of El Paso.There were only 94 infant deathslast month, as compared with 259 deaths during- July, of-last year. Alex K. Powell, registrar, reported.There were 99 deaths in June, -Mr. Powell reported.Ur. T. J. McCamant, crty-county health officer, said during1 May, June and- July of this year there have been only '34 deaths from diarrhea and enteritis among infants, as compared with 63 deaths from- the same causes during the same period lastyear.Diarrhea and enteritis arc the principal causes of deaths among infants in El Faso.A rigid campaign of education among mothers of South El Paso and a cleanup of tenement homes isTatereducing ihe infant death monthly, Dr. McCamant said.El Paso’s infant death rate always has been a blot on the city’s record/* the health officer declared.“A low death rate would be one of the best advertisements the city could have”STILL WEARS INDIAN GARBGAY HEAD, Mass.—Chief Harrison. Vanderhoop of the Gay Head tribe of Wampanoage Indians is, perhaps,..the only. Indian who still wears his native garb. His dress includes a band of wampum around his braided hair from which a feather extends. •
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1934
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