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smaller number than usual. Only 2 deaths were attributed to
influenza.
The number of deaths due to the principal zymotic diseases,
enteric fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough and diarrhoea (in children under 2 years) was 15. Of this
number, one was due to scarlet fever, four to diphtheria and ten to
diarrhoea. Of the ten deaths from diarrhoea or gastro-enteritis
no fewer than eight occurred in one hospital, most of them in babies
born in the hospital.
The Zymotic Death Rate was 0.28 per 1,000 of population
as compared with 0.13 for the previous year.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The number of deaths occurring in children under 12 months
of age was 27, and the Infantile Mortality Rate 47 per 1,000 live
births. This is not so favourable as that for the previous year,
when there were only 21 infantile deaths and an Infantile Mortality
Rate of 37. The increase was more than accounted for by the
large number of deaths due to gastro-enteritis, to which I have
referred already.
The individual causes of the infantile deaths and the age at
which death took place are shown in Table V. It will be seen
that of the total of 27 infantile deaths no fewer than 15 occurred
in the first month of life. The chief causes of death were gastroenteritis,
which accounted for ten deaths and broncho-pneumonia
which accounted for six.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Only one death was registered as a maternal death, the death
in this case being due to puerperal sepsis. The Maternal Mortality
Rate was, therefore, 1.7 per 1,000 births. In another case, however,
death occurred from sepsis after self-induced abortion, but as