Infant death rates still high in poor sections of Brooklyn
Here in central Brooklyn -- where storefronts are boarded, housing projects stand in defiant opposition to the boom towns, and the hospitals are more or less broke -- babies are dying at rates that the city as a whole has not seen in nearly two decades. And they die, in some cases, at a rate double what the federal government has set as the infant mortality goal for the nation. Often, they die months before they were meant to be born, their bodies a tangle of minute bones and skin, weighed in grams rather than pounds. Some never see their mother's faces; they are gone right after birth. Others leave the hospital with a shopping bag of drugs and a mother overwhelmed by her own myriad problems, and do not make it to their first birthday.
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