is due to the larger number of births registered, the infant mortality rate has dropped from 73.6 per thousand live births in 1953 to 72.4 per thousand live births in 1954.
21. The neo-natal mortality, or the number of children dying in the first four weeks of life was 2,050 as compared with 1,948 in 1953 but, because of the increased number of births registered, the neo-natal mortality rate dropped from 25.8 per thousand live births in 1953 to 24.6 per thousand live births in 1964.
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The following table sets out the figures in detail;
24. It is an interesting feature of mortality in Hong Kong that the number of infant deaths is always approximately one third of the total deaths from all causes, Tu 1954 the deaths
of infants under 1 year of age constituted 313% of the total deaths from all causes, being slightly higher than in 1953 when it was 30.4%.
25. There has been a slight rise in the maternal mortality rate from 0.97 per thousand live and still births in 1953 to 1.24 per thousand live and still births in 1954. The following table sets out the figures for 1953 and 1954 in detail;
TABLE
TABLE 1
Age Pariod
1932
1953
1954
Year
Live Still Birth Birthe
Total Live god
Pregnancy and Chul bearing
Abortion
Maternal Mortality Rate
Sull
Births
0.1 day
1-7 days
1-1 worke
4 works-3 monthe
3-6 months.
282
278
199
No of Deaths
Ratc
per
Nu. off 1,000 ¡Deaths Births
Rat
No. of 1,000 Deaths Dirtbs
Rate
per 1,000 Birthe
735
195
803
A73
875
1,048
1953
1,001
1,115
1.179
BTS
833
1,112
1954-****
75.544 1.158 76,702
93,317 1.341 84.658
74 0.96
102 | 1.20 3
1
0.01 75 0.97
0.04 105 1.21
6.9 months
9.12 month
935
uto
991
946
795
$96
Total under 1 year
5,546
3,560
6,028
Jalauḥ Murtality rate ComEKKI TURPIRKT
77.1
73.6
72.4
No. of deaths noder & weeke
1,890
Neo-natal Mortality rate
26.3
1,948
23.0
3,050
24.4
26. Deaths from toxaemias of pregnancy numbered 38, giving a death rate of 0.4 per thousand of all deliveries, a slight but insignificant increase on 1953. The following table shows deaths from toxaemias of pregnancy during the years 1953 and 1954.
23. It will be noted that the highest wastage of young life always occurs between the fourth and twelfth weeks of life and that there is an unusually heavy loss of life during the later months of infancy, contrary to experience elsewhere. It is gratifying to note that the rate of infant mortality has steadily fallen during the past years. 20 years ago the rate was around 300 per thousand live births,
TABLE 3
Year
Deaths from Total Births Toxaemin of (meluding
Pregnancy Still-births)
Death rate per thousand
1953
25
76,703
0.3
1954
04,658
0.4
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