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68 infants failed to survive one month. The neonatal mortality
or the death rate per 1,000 births occurring in infants at under one
month was therefore 21, constituting 54 per cent. of the total infant mortality rate.

28 of the neonatal fatalities occurred in premature infants.
In one of these the onset of the premature labour was due to antepartum
haemorrhage and in another four to some abnormal state
of the mother (nephritis, toxæmia, etc.). In one instance labour
had been induced; in two cases there was a twin pregnancy. In
13 cases the infant suffered from congenital abnormality (congenital
heart, 4). In 11 instances there was a history of difficulty in
labour. In seven death was ascribed to atelectasis (twins, 2;
maternal toxæmia, 1; and icterus, 2). In most of these cases
the death occurred very shortly after delivery. Of the remaining
infants who survived the first week but died within the first month,
the cause of death in one was bronchitis, and in another leukaemia.