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INFANT MORTALITY.
For the fifth year in succession, the district can record a
very favourable infant death rate. Thirty deaths of infants
under one year took place, which gives a mortality rate of
30 per thousand live births, as against a rate of 39 for the year
before. The corresponding rate for the country as a whole
was 50.
Of the 30 deaths, 22 were males and 8 females. Five were
illegitimate children.
Neo-natal deaths, i.e. those occurring within four weeks of
birth, at 17, represent 56% of the whole.
There were no infant deaths under one year of age due
to the commoner infectious diseases. Rather more than half
(53%) were due to the diseases peculiar to early infancy, prematurity,
malformations, marasmus, etc., whilst injury at birth
accounted for 3.

Table VII shows infantile mortality classified by age and
cause.
Infant death rates for the various wards are given below
based on the total of 941 live births which occurred during
the vear and which it was possible to allocate.