
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, December 25, 1993                   TAG: 9312250041
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN D.C. IMPROVES

The infant death rate in Washington, D.C., which has been the worst in the nation, improved last year to its best level in a decade.

City health officials said the improvement was due partly to a decline in the number of teen-age pregnancies.

The 1992 death rate - 18.3 infants for every thousand births to women in the nation's capital - means that 35 fewer babies died in Washington before their first birthdays than during 1991, according to city figures.

It also was the first time since the mid-1980s that fewer than 20 infants per thousand have died. The 1991 rate was 20.2. - Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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