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36 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
From Tuberculous diseases 10 deaths occurred ; six from
Tuberculous Meningitis, and four from other Tuberculous diseases,
compared with five in 1913, and eight in 1912 ; and 88 from diseases
of the Respiratory Organs, compared with 121.
Eight deaths were registered as due to Meningitis, but enquiries
of the medical attendant showed that all these were due to simple
Meningitis.
Table XXIII. shows the proportion of deaths per 1,000 births
from five groups of diseases for each week under one month, from
one to three months and for each three months up to one year of
age.
Compared with 1913, the rate from Diarrhoeal diseases was
slightly higher, the rate having been 20 26 per 1,000 compared with
19.27 in 1913.
From Premature Birth, Congenital Debility and Malformations
the rate was higher than in 1913, and this was also the case from
Tuberculous diseases, while from other causes the rate was slightly
lower.
From the Table it will be seen that the rate from common
infective diseases was highest at the ages six to nine months, from
Diarrhoeal diseases at three to six months, from Premature Birth,
etc., under one month, from Tuberculous diseases at three to six
and six to nine months, and from other causes at three to six
months.