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It must be remembered in considering these figures that
rarely is a baby brought to a welfare centre under 1 month
of age, whereas half the deaths occur in this period.
It would be a fairer comparison to state that of the 41 children
who died between the age of one month and one year, (all of whom
might have been in attendance at a welfare centre), only 16 had
attended an infant welfare centre, or in other words that 61 per
cent. of the deaths of children between one month and one year
of age occurred in children who had never attended an infant
welfare centre.
Neonatal Mortality.
The death-rate of infants under four weeks of age is known
as the Neonatal Mortality.
There were 37 deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age during
1925, and the rate for the year was 24.9 per 1,000 births.

Table IV. gives the deaths of infants under 1 year of age,
classified according to age. It will be noticed that prematurity
still causes the greatest number of deaths.