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(2) Next to these come Prematurity and conditions classified
as Debility and Marasmus with 34.2 per cent. of the total deaths
and a contribution of 20.5 per 1,000 to the infantile mortality
rate.
(3) Congenital Deformity, inconsistent with viability beyond
the first year, was responsible for 21 deaths, 10.7 per cent. of the
total deaths, and contributed 6.4 per 1,000 towards the infantile
mortality rate.
There were four deaths from the acute Zymotic diseases in
infants under 1 year of age.
In the tabulated deaths of children under 1 year of age, the
child who died was a first child in 38.7% ; a second child in 22.5% ;
a third child in 14.0% ; a fourth child in 6.2% ; a fifth child in
6.2%; a sixth child in 2.3%; a seventh child in 3.1%; an eighth
in 2.3%; a ninth in 0.8%; a tenth in 0.8%; an eleventh in 0.8%
a twelfth in 1.5%; and a fourteenth in 0.8%.
The following table gives the chief causes of infant deaths,
as compared with 1936 : —