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POPULATION:
A further very slight decline in the population has been
recorded.
BIRTHS:
The Birth rate has fallen very slightly since that recorded in
1960.
The proportion of illegitimate births has remained very much
the same as in recent years.
STILL-BIRTHS:
The Still-birth rate has fallen very slightly, and is now just
below the National rate.
DEATHS:
There is a very slight rise in the standardized death rate,
but it remains well below the National figure.
MATERNAL DEATHS:
For the second year in succession, I regret that I must record
a maternal death and in consequence the rate is again very high.
The death in 1960 was recorded as that of a woman aged 32 from
Hepatic Necrosis, due to multiple pregnancy with renal failure
and macrocytic anaemia given as contributory factors and that in
1961 as of a woman aged 22 from Acute haemorrhagic necrosis of
suprarenal glands due to infected abortion.
INFANT MORTALITY:
A large number of infant deaths occurred in 1961 following two
years when we had been extremely fortunate in having very few
such deaths. The rate is recorded as 30.9 as against 21.4 for
the whole country. All but two of these occurred in the Neonatal
period-that is during the first four weeks of life, - and the
neonatal rate of 27.7 is therefore also high All but one of the
neonatal deaths occurred in the early neonatal, that is during
the first week of life.
It should be also noted that two of these deaths were among
illegitimate children.
The causes of infant deaths are set out in the table, and as
in recent years, all over the country, immaturity played a very
large part.
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