Plans for a new center to serve children with congenital heart malformations have been approved by the Children's Bureau, Federal Security Agency. This center, the second regional heart program of its kind, will be located In California and will serve children in that State,
PUEETO RICO has witnessed a dramatic improvement in the health of its people in the last 20 years. The general death rate de¬ creased from 18.4 in 1940 to 6.8 per 1,000 in 1961. Life expectancy increased from 46 years to 70 years during the same period. Malaria has been eradicated. The tuberculosis death rate decreased from 260 to 25 per 100,000. Infant mortality decreased from 113 to 42 per 1,000 live births. The five most important causes of deaths in 1940 were diarrhea and enteritis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, diseases of the heart, and riephritis. In 1961 they were dis¬
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.