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The verdicts returned were as follows:—
Natural causes 5
Suicide 10
Accidental Death 10
Misadventure 1
In accordance with medical evidence 1
Five of the total were due to road accidents.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The number of infants dying in the first year of life was 40,
25 of which were males and 15 females. The infant mortality rate
was 46.1 per thousand live births compared with 53 in England and
Wales.
None of the infant deaths was illegitimate.
Neonatal deaths, that is to say those occurring in the first month
of life, at 24 represented 58 per cent. of the total. Diseases peculiar
to infancy—prematurity, malformations, atrophy, etc., accounted
for 25 (60 per cent. of the whole).
Diseases obviously due to infections were responsible for 14,
of which measles caused 1, tuberculosis 1, respiratory infections 8,
and infections of the gastro-intestinal tract 4.
The distribution of infant mortality by wards was as follows:—