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THE report for 1939 of Major R. A. Mansell, the medical officer of health of Gibraltar, of which a summary appears in the British Medical Journal of November 2, states that among the civilian population the birth-rate was 20˙85 per 1,000 and the death-rate 14˙25, which were both larger than in most English towns. The infantile mortality, which has been rising steadily in recent years in association with gross overcrowding, was last year 79˙36 per 1,000 births and was the highest since 1928. On the other hand, Gibraltar has been singularly free from epidemic disease. During the year there were only 93 cases of notifiable infectious diseases, the lowest number for half a century, and more than a third ofthese were chicken-pox. There were ten deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis, the prevalence of which is causing the medical officer some disquiet.
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Health on Gibraltar. Nature 146, 744 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146744c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146744c0