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The effects on child health and mortality are striking and the latest report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), 'A picture of Australia's children', documents this coming trend. The fall in deaths from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) to a third of 1991 rates is a tribute to outstanding Australian child health research, as well as the work of child and family health nurses and the SIDS Council of Australia.

'Physical Signs of Child Abuse' by Christopher J. Hobbs and Jayne M. Wynne provides information about the full spectrum of child abuse, with guidance on conducting physical exams, taking photographs, and colposcopy. The book spends too much time on some types of injuries and insufficient time on others, as well as having some confusing notes and offering advice for digital photographs which are, in Australia, inadmissible as legal evidence.