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18
INFANT MORTALITY.
The causes and ages at death of the children
who died under the age of 1 year were as follows
Injury at birth 30 minutes
Blue asphyxia—precipitate labour 1 hour
Respiratory failure—delivery 2 hours
Prematurity 9 hours
Prematurity (30 weeks) 12 hours
Congenital heart disease—malformation 14 hours
Premature twin birth (6£ months) 19 hours
Gastric haemorrhage — Gastritis — Prematurity
22 hours
Premature twin birth (6½ months) 1 day
Prematurity (8th month) 3 days
Prematurity 4 days
Acute Broncho-Pneumonia—premature birth 4 days
Cardiac failure—congenital heart disease 4 days
Prematurity — mother's toxaemia of pregnancy
1 week
Heart failure — toxaemia — bronchopneumonia
2 weeks
Prematurity 2 weeks
Prematurity and Atelectasis 2 weeks
Gastro-enteritis—Otitis Media 2 months
Pyloric Stenosis (Congenital Hypertrophic)
—Laparotomy for relief of obstruction 2 months
Diarrhoea and vomiting—broncho-pneumonia 3 months
Asphyxia—Inhalation of regurgitated food 4 months
Lobar pneumonia—Gastro-enteritis 4 months
Broncho-pneumonia 5 months
Acute Gastro-enteritis 7 months
Diarrhoea and vomiting — Meningococcal
meningitis 8 months
Subacute plastic peritonitis 11 months
There were 26 deaths of children under 1 year
of age which is a decrease of 7 compared with the
number for the previous year.