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Total Infant Mortality
This is defined as the sum of the deaths that occur
during child-birth and during the first year of life.
The attached graph shows the position since 1930:-
If the infant mortality rate for the quinquennium
1931/35, i.e. 49, had applied to the births during the
quinquennium 1956/60 there would have been approximately
347 infant deaths insterd of 131. This represents a
saving of 216 infant lives in the five-year period, or,
say, 43 infant lives each year.