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The epidemiology of low birth weight: changes in incidence in Aberdeen, 1948–72

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Dugald Baird
Affiliation:
MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Aberdeen

Abstract

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Copyright © 1974, Cambridge University Press

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