Black babies still face worst odds '89 Mass. data show death rate is at least 2.8 times that of whites

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 28, 1991| Author: Dolores Kong, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Death rates among black and white infants in Boston and Massachusetts dropped in 1989, but the rate among black babies continued to be as much as 3.6 times that among white babies, according to a state report released yesterday.

Ominously, there was a sharp drop in the percentage of black women receiving adequate prenatal care in 1989, a development that could drive the black infant mortality rate even higher.

The report included an ethnic breakdown of infant mortality statist...

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