Mortality rates.
Death rates for boys and girls aged 5-9 fell by 48 per cent between 1971 and 1988, and by 30 per cent for boys and 38 percent for girls aged 10-14 according to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. Over the same period stillbirth and neonatal death rates decreased by over 55 per cent, and postnatal by almost one third.