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DEATHS AMONG NOTIFIED AND UN-NOTIFIED BIRTHS.
92.4 per cent, of the deaths under one year of age were notified,
the remainder being un-notified.
SEX.
The death rate among male children was 87.5 per thousand
births, and among females 72.4, the excessive male death rate
during the year being noteworthy.
NEONATAL MORTALITY.
The neonatal mortality rate is calculated on the number of
deaths of children under four weeks per thousand births, and
(luring 1925 was equal to a rate of 30.3 compared with 36.6 for
the previous year.
From the following table it will be seen that out of a total
of 25 deaths during the first four weeks of life 13 occurred during
the first seven days and 8, or 61.5 per cent, of these resulted
frcm prematurity or debility.
The question of further ante-natal care was emphasised in
my Report for the previous year as an important factor in further
reducing the disproportionate incidence of infantile deaths during
the neonatal period.