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D. Infant Mortality.

30. The table below shows the number of infant deaths per thousand live births for the years 1928 to 1948.

Year

TABLE 4

Infant Mortality Rate

1928

458

1929

042.9

1930

557.5

1931

617.42

1932

525.28

1933

454.89

1934

347.34

1935

316.36

1936

372.42

1927

376

1998

343

1970

345

1940

327

1941

- 1943 to 1945

Not available

Not available (Japanese occupation)

1946

1947

89.1

102.3

1948

31. Az íu the case of the general death rate, the infant mortality rate has been considerably lower in post war years than in any previous year for which records are available.

32. The figures now published for 1946 and 1947 differ from those published in previous reports. It was found that an error had been introduced in the method of computing these figures in post war years and this has now been adjusted.

93. Table 5 shows the infant and neo-natal deaths also the neo-natal deaths per thousand live births.

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TABLE 5

Age Period

1940

1947

1942

0-1 day

174

273

221

I - 7 days

284

378

467

1-4 weeks

583

814

745

4 weeks - 3 months

נליזי

981

900

3-6 months

462

750

685

6 - 9 months

367

Тал

775

9-12 months

109

421

551

Total under 1 year

2.770

4.340

4.324

Infant Mortality rate

B9.J

102.3

91.J

No. of deaths under 4 weeks

1.000

4.403

1.433

Neo-natal Mortality rate

32.2

34.4

30.2

24. The numbers for still births for the years 1947 and 1948 were 1348 and 1251 giving a still birth rate per thousand total births of 30.8 and 25.7.

E. Maternal Mortality.

36. Table 6 shows the causes of death ascribed to pregnancy and child birth excluding abortions for the years 1946 to 1948.

Inter- national

No.

142

143

144

TABLE 6

Causes of Death

Ectopic gestation

1946

1947 1948

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Hacmorrbage of pregnancy

G

#

Toxaemias of pregnancy—————

(c) Acute yellow atrophy

(a, b) Eclampsia. Albuminuria

(d) Others in 144

B

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10

1

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145

Other diseases and accidents of

pregnancy

-

2

148

Haemorrhage of childbirth and

puerperium

A

17

13

147

Infection during childbirth and

puerperium

ti

148

Puerperal toxaemias-

(a, b) Eclampsia. Albuminuria

(c) Acute Yellow atrophy

1

(d) Others in 148.

149

Other accidents of childbirth

15

150

Other conditions of childbirth and

puerperium:→→→

(a) Mastitis

(b) Puerperal psychosis

(c) Others in 150

142-150

TOTAL

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