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INFANT MORTALITY.
Nineteen male and 13 female infants, a total of 32, died
under one year of age. This gives an infant mortality rate
of 39 per 1,000 live births as against a rate of 35 in the
previous year. The corresponding rate for England and
Wales was 58.
Of the total infant deaths 3 were illegitimate children,
all males.
The neo-natal deaths, i.e., those occurring within one
month of birth, totalled 15, representing 46% of the whole.
Diseases peculiar to the new born (prematurity, congenital
malformations, marasmus, etc.), accounted for 18, and
pneumonia for 6. Three were due to infectious diseases, one
to whooping cough, one to diphtheria, and one to influenzal
meningitis.

Table VIII shows the infant deaths classified as to age
and cause of death.
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