Maryland’s infant mortality rate fell to a record low last year, state health officials announced.
The state’s infant mortality rate dropped 10 percent in 2009, from eight infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2008 to 7.2 in 2009, according to preliminary numbers from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The rate is the lowest since the state began keeping records in the 1920s.
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