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Vital Statistics.
The figures appended refer to infants born in 1911, and kept under
supervision for a year, they show an increase of 315 in the number kept
under supervision, and an increase of 9.93 per thousand in the rate of
mortality, as compared to 1910.
Visited 1,846
Removed and not traced 419
Died 165
Rate of mortality per 1,000 visited 115.62
The feeding of the above infants during the first six months of life
was as follows:—
(1) Those alive at end of completed year (December, 1912):—
Breast-fed 82.89 per cent.
Mixed feeding 14.1 ,,
Hand-fed 3.01 ,,
(2) Those who died:—
Breast-fed 57.57 per cent.
Mixed feeding 29.63 „
Hand-fed 12.72
(3) Comparison of Rates of Mortality between Infants.
Breast-fed 8.3 per cent.
Mixed feeding 21.5 „
Hand-fed 35.5 ,,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Notifications received 34
Visits paid 32
Revisits paid 48
Recovered 24
Died while under treatment 2
Sight of one eye destroyed 1
Did not wish to be. visited 1
Remaining under supervision 4