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INFANT MORTALITY-Continued.
Causes of death. w^; 00
p (M s co w.ri E —
Nephritis: I 2
Acute. ---- 22 22
Chronic --------------------------------------- I... 18 18
Oedema of the glotis ------------------------------— 1 j 1
Omphalitis, acute peritonitis ----------------------— i 2 I.. j 2
Omiphalorrhagia --------------------------- -------- 1 - 1
Organic heart diseases (congenital). --- —-----------------------------—. 1! 2 3
Pleurisy -------—.. --- —-----. --------------- ---—. - - ---—. — 2 2
Petechial haemorrhagic of viscera -------------—.- -I 1 1 --- —---- 2
Pneumonia, lobar ____ --- —-------------------— ' -------- --------. --- —------ 6 6
Premature birth ---------------------------------- 17' 6 -------- 1- 2 25
Postmortem decomposition ---------------------------------------------- 1 i 1
Persistance of foramen Botallo ---------------- - 1 --- —-- I 1 2 3
Pleuropneumonia- - - -- -1 1
Pulmonary congestion ------—.. --- —-------- -— I 1 1
Purulent infection and septichsemia -------------- - 7 --- —-. --- —--- - — 7 7 7
Rickets ----------------------------------- ---------------- -------- - 2 2
Sclerema (oedematous) -----------..-. -------- 1 --- —- 1......... 1
Subdural left parietal ----------------------------- -1 - 1
Scurvy -..............................i 2 2
Smallpox --- —------------------------- 1 195 196
Syphilis ---- ------- ------------------------------- --------. 1 1
Smallpox, probable --------------—. --- —------- 1 i 1
Tetanus, unbilical ------------------------------------------------- 58 3 61
Tuberculosis: I
Intestinal ------—. ---------------------------- --- 2 2
Peribronchial —. ------------------------------ - 1 1
Pulmonary --- —------------------------- -------- ---------- ------- 1 1
Typhoid fever ------------------------------------— I --- — --- ------—! 1 1
Undetermined cause --- —--------------------------- 2 ---— _ — -------—. 2
Whooping cough ---------------------------- -------- ----- -- --- -- 9 9
Total -238 | 47 I 14 428 1 2,884 3,611
COMPARATIVE MORTALITY FROM JANUARY, 1908, TO DECEMBER,
1918, INCLUSIVE.

1908 1909 1910 1911
Mnh Nu e Annual ANumal Annual Annual
Month. Number death Number a Number Annual deth Number death
of death of d of of
of 100deaths. rate p er deaths. rate per deaths rate per deaths. rate per
1,000. 1,000. 1,000. 1O0
January --- —----- 1,117 a 58.87 720 a 37.94 729 b 36.64 653 b 32. 82
February ---- - 733 a 41.29 616 a 35.94 638 b 35. 50 536 b 29.82
March 720 a 37.94 218 a 32.57 642 b32.26 574 b28.85
April --- --- 626 a 34.09 550 a 29.95 594 b 30. 66 647 b 28. 41
May -- ------ - 633 a33.36 544 a 28.67 604 b30.35 609 b 30.60
June -- ---- - 678 | a36.92 552 a 30. 06 646 b 33.55 693 b 35. 99
July -------- 977 a51.49 691 a36.41 799 b40.15 830 b41.71
August --- - 1,148 a 60.50 679 a35.78 731 b 36. 74 878 b 44.13
September 1,362 a 74.17 649 a35.34 664 b 34. 48 741 b 38. 48
October --- —------- 991 a 52.23 700 a 36. 89 705 b 35.43 686 b 34. 48
November - --- 837 a45.58 778 a 42.37 642 b 33.34 782 b 40. 61
December --- —--- 824 a 43.42 839 a 44.22 635 b 31. 91 698 b 35.08
Total --- —-- 10,646 a47.62 7,936 a 35,50 8,029 b 34.25 8,227 b36.09
a Death rate computed on population of 223,542 (Health census, 1907).
b Death rate computed on population of 234,409 (Health census, 1910).