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and pneumonia, three causes of death which are to a great extent
subservient to the weather. A combination of frost or wet and
fog with the accompanying smoke from the burning of raw coal
in open grates appears to be particularly death dealing. These
three were the cause of 316 (366) deaths or 11.6 per cent. (13.38
per cent.).
During the year the number of live births corrected by inward
and outward transfers was 3,875, giving a corrected birth rate of
16.77, compared with 17.91 in 1949, a decrease of 1.13 per 1,000
population.
Maternal Mortality
The maternal mortality is expressed as the number of deaths
attributed to puerperal and post-abortive sepsis and other maternal
causes for each 1,000 births. There was one maternal death during
the year.