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Natural causes 9
Suicide 4
Accidental 22
Misadventure 4
Open verdict 2
Chronic alcoholism 1
Eighteen of the total were residents of the district. Nine deaths
were due to road accidents.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The deaths of 19 infants during the first year of life were registered,
8 of which were males and 11 females. The infant mortality
rate of 23 per 1,000 live births is the lowest yet recorded for the
district, the previous most favourable figure being 27 in 1942. The
present rate is half that for England and Wales as a whole. It is
remarkable moreover that no illegitimate infant died, neither was any
still-birth illegitimate. More than half the infants who died were
either premature or had congenital malformation. Only four died
from obviously infective conditions.
TABLE 6.
INFANT MORTALITY—WARD DISTRIBUTION.
Ward.
Infant Deaths.
Rale per 1,000
Live Births.
St. Helier North
2
16
St. Helier South
3
36
St. Helier West
1
9
North-East
6
33
North-West
—
—
Central
2
24
South-East
7
75
South-West
-
-
MATERNAL MORTALITY
There was no death attributable to diseases of pregnancy, childbirth
or the puerperal state.
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