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accounted for 38.6% of the total deaths, and contributed 17.5
deaths per 1,000 births towards the infantile mortality rate.
(2) Next to these come Pneumonia and Diarrhoea with 25.5%
of the total deaths and a contribution of 11.6 per 1,000 to the
infantile mortality rate.
(3) The influence of pre-natal 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 5 deaths. In 1933 it caused
one death. There were 3 deaths from Measles.
(5) In the tabulated deaths of children under 1 year of age, the
child who died was a first child in 25.9%; a second child in 20.0%;
a third child in 9.2%; a fourth child in 8.3%; a fifth child in 5.0%
a sixth child in 5.8%; a seventh child in 5.8%; an eighth in 1.7%;
and a tenth in 0.8%. In 17.5% of total deaths no data were forthcoming
owing to the parents having moved, or for other reasons.