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Infantile Mortality.
299 children died before they reached five years of age;
of these 190 were infants under one year ; this mortality is
high, but it compares favourably with the numbers in preceding
years.
The deaths of children under one year were 16.0 per
1,000 of registered births, and 18.3 per 1,000 of total deaths.
The deaths of children under five years equalled 28.8 per
1,000 of total deaths.
The diseases, or groups of diseases, which were the chief
causes of infantile mortality are herewith stated in their
order of fatality, viz. : zymotic diseases, 71 ; diseases of
the respiratory organs, 59; tubercular diseases, 45 ; debility
and inanition, 29 ; premature birth, 27 ; convulsions,
23 ; and suffocation, i.e., accidentally overlaid in bed by
their parents, 10. It is stated " that in Germany parents
were liable to punishment if their children were found suffocated
by being in bed with them, in consequence of which
the infants were put to sleep in cots."
Senile Mortality.
There were 277 deaths of old people at sixty years
of age and upwards ; 57 died from diseases of the brain and
nervous system ; 34 from diseases of the heart and circulatory
system; 98 from consumption and other diseases of
the respiratory organs, and 35 were registered as deaths
from old age.
The deaths which occurred at advanced ages were :79
between 75 and 85 years.
6 „ 85 „ 90 „
2 at 90 years.
2 at 91 „
1 at 92 ,,