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The Causes of deaths In Infants under 1 year are as follows
Pneumonia 13
Gastro-enteritis 1
Congenital malformation 5
Other defined and
defined diseases 34
Tracheo Bronchitis 1
Other malignant and
lymphatic neoplasms 1
Accidents 2
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The two accidental deaths were both caused by asphyxia in bed. One baby had been
taken into his parents bed, the other the baby was choked by the cot mattress.
Although the full details from which the Registrar General compiles his statistics
are not accessible to the Health Department, it would appear from such information as is
available that the 34 infant deaths classified as "Other defined and ill-defined diseases"
are made up as follows
Prematurity 17
Prematurity and atelectasis 5
Atelectasis 2
Intracranial birth injury 3
Cerebral haemorrhage 1
Renal necrosis 1
Intrauterine asphyxia 5 (1 found abandoned at birth)
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The infant mortality rate remains lower than the national average, but is slightly
higher than last year which was the lowest on record.
The neo-natal death rate (deaths of infants under four weeks per 1,000 live births)
is much the same as last year, and also remains below the national average. Of 57 infant
deaths under 1 year, 39 occurred in the first 4 weeks, and of these 15 were premature.
The stillbirth rate, while lower than last year, has not returned to its previous
low level and is above the national average. This year there have been 74 stillbirths,
as compared with 8l last year and 44 in 1957.
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