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Notices to Readers Publication of Report on Firearm Mortality Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults

CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released a report that addresses the increasingly high rate of deaths from firearms among children, youth, and young adults. The report, Firearm Mortality Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults 1--34 Years of Age, Trends and Current Status: United States, 1979--88, presents a detailed analysis of trends since 1979 on firearm-attributable homicides, suicides, and unintentional deaths.

Copies of the report are available free of charge from the Scientific and Technical Information Branch, NCHS, CDC, Room 1064, 6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782; telephone (301) 436-8500.

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