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(2) Next to these come Pneumonia and Diarrhoea with 25.7%
of the total deaths and a contribution of 12.6 per thousand to the
infantile mortality rate.
(3) The influence of prenatal causes is exerted mainly during
the first two months of life, whilst the influence of environment
and nurture, after that time. The causes of death change after
the second month in a quite distinct manner.
(4) Whooping Cough caused 2 deaths. In 1929 it caused 12
deaths. It is a dangerous foe to infant life. Measles caused 3
deaths and Scarlet Fever 1 death. In deaths of children under one
year of age, the child who died was a first child in 28%; a second
child in 11.7%; a third child in 11.7%; a fourth child in 8.2%; a
fifth child in 5.3%; a sixth child in 1.8%; a seventh child in 2.9%;
an eighth in 0.6%; a ninth in 0.6% and a tenth in 2.3%. In 26.9%
no data were forthcoming owing to the parents having moved, or
the child being a foster child, or for other various reasons.
The following table gives the chief causes of infant deaths, as
compared with 1929.