Published April 24, 2012, 11:53 AM
-- The infant death rate in Wisconsin’s largest city dropped to a record-low last year. But Milwaukee’s mortality rate for African-American babies is almost three times that of whites. And Mayor Tom Barrett called it quote, “an embarrassment to our city, to our county, and to our state.”
Morning State News Briefs: Milwaukee infant mortality rate drops
Wisconsin News-- The infant death rate in Wisconsin’s largest city dropped to a record-low last year. But Milwaukee’s mortality rate for African-American babies is almost three times that of whites. And Mayor Tom Barrett called it quote, “an embarrassment to our city, to our county, and to our state.”
