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(2) Next to these come Pneumonia and Diarrhœa with 29.1%
of the total deaths and a contribution of 12.0 per 1,000 to the
infantile mortality rate.
(3) Congenital Deformity, inconsistent with viability beyond
the first year, was responsible for only 8 deaths, 6.0% of the total
deaths, and contributed 2.5 per 1,000 towards the infantile mortality
rate.
There were ten deaths from the acute Zymotic diseases in
infants under 1 year of age, of these 6 were due to Whooping Cough.
In the tabulated deaths of children under 1 year of age, the
child who died was a first child in 40.5%; a second child in 19.0%;
a third child in 10.1%; a fourth child in 12.7%; a fifth child in
6.3%; a sixth child in 7.6%; a seventh child in 1.3%; a tenth in
1.3%, and an eleventh in 1.3%.
The following table gives the chief causes of infant deaths,
as compared with 1935:—