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17
Certified Causes of
Death.
Months
0—3.
Months!
3—6.
Months
6—9.
Months
9—12.
Total.
% of
Total.
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria
Erysipelas
Measles
Influenza
Meningococcal Meningitis
Whooping Cough
Diarrhoea and Enteritis
General Tuberculosis
Tuberculous Meningitis
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Pneumonia
Bronchitis
Other Respiratory
Diseases
Nephritis
Prematurity
Marasmus
(Edema Neonatorum
Congenital Malformation;
Injury at Birth
Suffocation (overlying)
Convulsions
Atelectasis & Asphyxia N
Lack of Care
Septic Parotitis
Syphilis
Miscellaneous
Total
Percentage of Total
-
-
1
-
2
-
-
5
-
-
8
2
45
5
2
10
1
13
2
1
3
1
101
55-2
1
9
1
1
8
1
6
1
28
15-3
2
7
8
1
2
1
21
11-5
1
6
1
4
1
1
15
3
1
33
18-0
1
1
6
2
4
25
1
1
2
39
5
47
13
2
10
1
13
2
1
3
4
183
100-0
0.55
0.55
3.28
1.09
2.19
13.66
0.55
0.55
1.09
21.31
2.73
25.68
7.10
1.09
5.46
0.55
7.10
1.09
0.55
1.64
2.19
100.0
Illegitimate Infant Deaths.
The death-rate amongst illegitimate children during 1926 was
162 per 1,000 births, as compared with 113.2 per 1,000 births in
1925, 148.1 in 1924 and 179.7 in 1923. The corresponding deathrate
of legitimate children in 1926 was 61.6, the ratio of the mortality-rate
of illegitimate infants to that of legitimate being 2.8
to 1.