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16. The infantile death-rate has been reduced even more,
viz., to 56 per cent., or roughly one-half, of what it was in
1891. These results have, it will be admitted, exceeded the
expectations of the most sanguine sanitary reformers, and
whatever objections may be made by the cautious and the
economical in future, they cannot, in the face of such figures
as the above, say that the deaths of the young are not to a
large extent preventable. Fewer deaths mean less sickness;
efficient sanitary administration causes the people to have
life more abundantly.
INFANT MORTALITY.
,17. The deaths under one year were 229, compared with
201 in 1912. The infant mortality (deaths under one year
per 1,000 births) was 80, compared with 73 in 1912, and
with 98 in 1911. With the exception of 1912 this is the
lowest rate recorded.