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Of the total deaths, 63 were boys and 67 girls. This proportion
between the sexes is not in acoordance with the general
experience for the whole country, for as a rule more infant boys
die than girls, although more boys than girls are born, thus
accounting for the excess of females over males in the total
population.

Infant Mortality Rate.
Number of deaths of infants (residents only) 130
Total births registered 1211
Infant-mortality-rate 107.3 per 1000 births
It will be seen that the infant mortality rate given above
differs from that given in column 6 of Table I. The reason for
this is that the rate in the table is calculated on the total number
of infant deaths registered in the district during the year, no
allowance being made for any of such deaths being non-resident.
As already stated, 17 of the 147 infant deaths registered were the
children of non-resident women, and must be deducted before a
correct rate can be arrived at.
Although above the exceptional figure of last year, this infant
mortality rate of 107.3 per 1000 births is lower than in any of
the previous ten years with the exception of 1903, and it is considerably
below the similar rate for the whole of the country in
1908.