Deaths associated with respiratory tract infection in childhood.

the number of children who die from respiratory tract infections has decreased markedly during the period in which antibacterial drugs have become available.The figures given in Table I illustrate this point clearly, but they also show that such deaths have by no means been eliminated and that the extent of the improvement is much less among infants than among older children.TABLE I.-Numbers of Children Who Died in Newcastle upon Tyne from Lower Respiratory Tract Infections No.