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emphasis on providing safe and hygienic birthing conditions with trained and registered midwives and doctors. This contributed to a reduction in maternal and infant mortality rates.
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Regulations to improve housing conditions were introduced, which required all houses to be built with drains and, where possible, be connected to a sewerage system or cesspit
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Penalities were introduced to protect the safety of food and public.
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Providing better ventilation and toilet and introduction to minimum wage
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Government provided funding to the states for the introduction of tuberculosis and venereal disease public health campaigns to address the high level of mortality and morbidity from these diseases.
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Resulting in better quality milk, an increased breastfeeding rates and reducing fertility rates contributes further to improvement in infant mortality rates