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On reviewing the causes of death from the
above tables there have been great increases in the
number of deaths due to Cancer and to the Circulatory
Diseases. In the latter the increase is due to
the number of deaths from Heart Disease.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The causes and ages at death of the children
who died under the age of 1 year were as follows:—
Intracranial Haemorrhage 6 days.
Sudden Heart Failure—Congenital Heart
Disease 1 day.
Cardiac Failure—Acute Gastro-Enteritis—
Acute Bronchitis 3 months.
Prematurity 1 hour.
Broncho Pneumonia 8 months.
Gastro-Enteritis—Hypopyrexia 3 weeks.
Respiratory Failure—Prematurity 5 minutes.
Heart Failure—Prematurity (6 months) 2 hours.
Acute Bronchitis 2 months.
Cardiac Failure—Gastro-Enteritis—
Diarrhoea 4 months.
Septic Meningitis—Spina Bifida 1 week.
Heart Failure—Broncho Pneumonia 8 months.
Cardiac Failure—Immaturity of Development—Inanition
due to Toxicity 1 hour.
Intracranial Haemorrhage—Injury at Birth
(non-instrumental) 30 minutes.
Heart Failure—Congenital Heart Disease 2 days.
Intracranial Haemorrhage—Rupture of Len-
torium in the Course of Birth 19 hours.
Patent Foramen Ovale—Prematurity 2 days.
Cardiac Debility and Heart Failure—Acute
Bronchitis 2 months.
Cardiac Failure—Atelectasis 13 hours.
Pneumonia—Influenza—Otitis Media 5 months.
Broncho Pneumonia — Prematurity
(7 months) 3 months.
Meningitis—Spina Bifida 1 week.