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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
The maternal mortality rate for the year 1950 is once again
Nil. It has been pointed out before that dealing with small
figures such as those provided by our population, a single death
is reflected in the mortality rate by more than 1 per thousand.
For this reason we have published the rates for the past 20 years.
These figures will be found in the Table below. It will be seen
that we have had a Nil mortality 4 times in the past ten years
and that only twice in that period has it been above 1. In the
20 years ended this year there have been 39 maternal deaths
and 19,468 births (live and still). This gives an overall rate for
the period of 2.05 per thousand births.