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[or nearly 42% of the total deaths, and contributed 24.1 per
thousand births towards the infantile mortality rate.
(2) Next to these come Pneumonia and Diarrhoea with 22%
of the total deaths and a contribution of 12.6 per thousand to flie
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 6 deaths. In 1930 it caused 2
deaths. It is a dangerous foe to infant life. There were no deaths
from Measles. Scarlet Fever caused one death. In deaths of
children under one year of age, the child who died was a first child
in 26%; a second child in 19.9% ; a third child in 12.2% ; a fourth
child in 7.1% ; a fifth child in 3.1% ; a sixth child in 2.0% ; a
seventh child in 2.5% ; an eighth in 1.0% ; a ninth in 0.5% ; a tenth
in 1.0%; an eleventh in 0.5%; and a thirteenth in 0.5%. In
23.5% no data were forthcoming owing to the parents having
moved, or the child being a foster child, or for other various reasons.