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(2) Next to these come Pneumonia and Diarrhoea with 27.4
per cent. of the total deaths, and contributed 12.6 deaths per 1,000
to the infantile mortality rate.
(3) Congenital Deformity, inconsistent with viability beyond
the first year, was responsible for 19 deaths, 14.1 per cent. of the
total deaths, and contributed 5.7 per 1,000 towards the infantile
mortality rate.
There were five 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 40.2 per cent.; a second child
in 18.6 per cent.; a third child in 11.3 per cent.; a fourth child
in 14.4 per cent.; a fifth child in 6.2 per cent.; a sixth in 5.2 per
cent.; an eighth in 2.1 per cent.; a ninth in 1.0 per cent., and a
tenth in 1.0 per cent.

Analysed these deaths were due to Measles 2; Tuberculosis 5; Cerebrospinal
Fever 3; Whooping Cough 1; Scarlet Fever 1; Diphtheria 1;
and Erysipelas 1.
Analysed these deaths were due to Diarrhoea 23; Gastritis 1; Intussusception
1; and Tonsillitis 1.