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INFANT MORTALITY.
number of deaths occurring in children under one year of age
was 19, as compared with 14 last year and 10 in 1933, all except 1 being
in legitimate children.
The Infantile Mortality Rate was thus 32, as compared with 26
in 1934 and 20 in 1933. As previously pointed out, this Rate is liable
to violent fluctuations owing to the small numbers concerned. Even
five-yearly grouping does not abolish this, as the average figures for the
four quinquennial periods, 1915-34, demonstrate, viz., 44, 28, 38 and 32.
The Infantile Mortality Rate for England and Wales was 57 in
1935, 59 in 1934 and 64 in 1933, the latest figure being the lowest on
record. The averages for 1915-24 and 1925-34 were approximately
83 and 67.
The causes of death in the 19 infants under one year of age who died
in 1935 were :—
Acute Bronchitis 2
Broncho-pneumonia 1
Gastro-enteritis 1
Prematurity 4
Respiratory failure 1
Birth injury 2
Spina Bifida 1
Congenital heart disease 3
Marasmus 1
Pyloric Stenosis 1
Suffocation 2
Of these children, 15 were under three months and 9 not more than
one week old at death. The two deaths due to suffocation have already
been referred to in the section under Violence.
The following Table shows the Populations, Births, Birth Rates,
Deaths, Death Rates and Infantile Mortality Rates for each of the
past ten years :—
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
Population
27,500
29,370
31,520
32,490
40,000
37 300
40,050
44,390
46,340
48,750
Births
317
371
393
436
433
472
474
486
547
593
Birth Rate
11,5
12.6
12 4
13.4
10.8
12.6
11 8
11.1
11.8
12.2
Deaths
163
198
208
278
259
288
342
313
355
388
Death Rate
5.9
6.7
6.6
8.5
6.4
7.7
8.5
7.1
7.6
7.9
Infant Deaths
10
10
15
22
19
11
22
10
14
19
Infantile Mortality
Rate
31
26
38
50
43
23
46
20
26
32
13