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These from leukaemia and aleukaemia also fall from 17 to 8.
Two male children under five years of age died as a result of meningococcal
infections.
No death from measles occurred during the year.
Syphilitic disease accounted for the same number of deaths as in 1961.
Three males and three females died from the disease and five of them, 2
males and 3 females, were over the age of 75 years.
Deaths from respiratory tuberculosis decreased from 27. to 22 while
those from other forms of the disease were the same as in 1961.
Fatalities from ulcers of the stomach and duodenum were not as
numerous, 18 deaths occurring compared with 40 last year. Although the
number of deaths is more than halved the ratio of men to women is still
two to one.
Deaths from motor vehicle accidents decreased by 4 during the year
but those from other accidents increased by two.
Six more people took their own lives compared with the figure for the
year 1961 and two more died as the result of homicide.
INFANTILE MORTALITY
The number of infants who died in the first year of life was 102.
This is seven less than in 1961 and gives an infantile mortality rate of
19.15 per 1,000 live births which is one of the lowest on record and compares
very favourably with that for Englandand Wales which is 21.4
Seventy-one children died in the first four weeks of life compared with
83 in 1961 giving a neo-natal mortality rate of 13.3 per 1,000 live births
compared with 15.0 for England and Wales.
The early neo-natal mortality rate , i.e. deaths under one week per 1.000
live births, also fell, being 12.9 compared with 16.9 in 1961.
MATERNAL MORTALITY
Unfortunately the number of women dying as a result of childbirth
increased. Five died compared with three in 1961. This gives an increased
mortality rate of 0.92 per 1,000 total births compared with 0.61 last year and
is the highest since 1955.
DEATHS FROM CANCER OF THE LUNG AND BRONCHUS
Deaths from cancer of the lung and bronchus fell, 138 occurring
compared with 172 in 1961.