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Date: | Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:33:16 -0800 |
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For those of you who rely on WHO data, it is usually the country's
responsibility to collect the data and feed it up to WHO. Thus, WHO stats
are only as good as the individual nation's. At the request of several
people who deleted their last digest without coping the NCHS web site:
Repost:
You may find out just about any health statistic that the US collects by
going to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) web site at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/nchshome.htm.
I couldn't get there today because of internet traffic, but the rough
figure for 1996's number of births is 3.9 million (give or take a few
hundred thousand).
You may also email NCHS at: [log in to unmask]
WarmLLLy in very rainy Oregon,
Chris
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