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Suicides.
34 persons committed suicide in the Borough during 1926
as compared with 16 in 1925.
Infantile Mortality.
The infantile mortality rate for the year was 64. The number
of deaths of infants under 1 year was 294, a decrease of 22 on
the recorded figure for 1925.
The principal causes of deaths in their order of severity were
premature birth, pneumonia, enteritis, atrophy, debility and
marasmus, and congenital malformation.
The following tables show the deaths from all causes, the
infantile deaths and deaths from the principal diseases, together
with information relating to the birth, death and infantile rates
in the 29 Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs in 1926:—