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State Infant Mortality Rate Shows Decrease
North Carolina's 1929 infant mortality rate fell to 79.1 per thousand births from 85.7 in 1928. The report lists 77,160 births in 1929 and 36,919 deaths overall, with infant deaths totaling 6,196. City data for Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Gastonia, Goldsboro, Greensboro, High Point, New Bern, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, Salisbury, Wilmington, Wilson, and Winston-Salem show varied trends in births, all-ages deaths, and infant mortality rates.
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