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Inquests.
Inquests were held on 18 deaths, 10 of which were on persons
resident in the district. The verdicts returned were as follows:—
Natural causes 4
Suicide 1
Accidental Death 9
Misadventure 2
In accordance with medical evidence 2
Five of the total were due to road accidents.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The deaths of 28 infants under 1 year of age were registered, 17
of which were males and 11 females. This gives an infant mortality
rate of 35 per 1,000 live births, which compares with the rate of 50
for the country as a whole.
Five of the total infant deaths were of illegitimate infants.
A rather higher percentage than usual, viz. 64 per cent., occurred
during the first 4 weeks of life, practically all of which were the result
of diseases peculiar to infancy—prematurity, congenital malformations,
etc. The deaths for which infections were responsible wholly
or partly numbered 9, 31 per cent. of the total.
The distribution of infant mortality by Wards was as follows:—

MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Three deaths were allocated to diseases of pregnancy, childbirth
and the puerperal state, all of which were due to causes other than
sepsis. The Maternal Death rate was accordingly 3.07 per 1,000 total
births and compared with the rate of 2.97 for England and Wales.
The cause of death in each case was certified as:—
(1) I (a) Pulmonary embolism.
(b) Child birth.
(2) I (a) Syncope following Ceasarean section.
(b) Albuminuria of pregnancy.
(3) I (a) Air embolism during an operation for
(b) Curetting for incomplete miscarriage.
All received hospital treatment.
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