PEDIATRICS Vol. 42 No. 6 December 1968, pp. 1011-1012
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Another Lesson from the Health Care of European Children

Gilbert B. Forbes M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

In the current flurry of excitement, and dismay, at the relative ranking of the United States mortality rates,1 I should like to direct the reader's attention to a 25-year-old article which should make us–and also our Swedish colleagues–feel even worse.

I refer to Sigismund Peller's study of the health of the ruling families of Europe over the last 400 years.2 One of the calculations which Peller made was that of the infant mortality rates for this group of favored citizens.