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Total Number of Post-Mortems held on children under 2 years of age during the year 1st July, 1902, to 30th June, 1903 :—

606.

Return of Causes of Death.

Marasmus,

205

Broncho-Pneumonia,

81

Diarrhoea,

79

Plague Septic,

23

Inanition,

21

Acute Tuberculosis,

16

Croupous Pneumonia,

15

Tubercular Br. Pneumonia,

14

Malaria,

13

Acute Bronchitis,

13

Pleurisy,

7

Small-pox,

5

Atelectasis,

Plague-Bubonie, .

Acute Endocarditis,

Exposure,

Acute Nephritis,

Acute Ulcerative Enteritis,.

Tabes Mesenterica,

Acute Congestion of Lung, Acute Pericarditis,

Rupture of Spleen,

Congenital Syphilis,

Fracture of Skull,

Enteric Fever,

Plague Pneumonic,

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Number of Bodies too decomposed for examination :-80.

Number of Post-Mortems held on :—

Male Children,

253 or

42 per cent.

Female Children,..

353 or

58 per cent.

Number of Post-Mortems held on :-

Children under 2 weeks of age,

131 or 22 per cent.

Males,

Females,

Males,

Females,

Children over 2 weeks and under 2 years of age,

Number of Post-Mortems hell on Children sent from the French and

52 or 40 per cent. 79 or 60 per cent. 475 or 78 per cent 201 or 42 per cent. 274 or 58 per cent.

Males, Females,

Italian Convents:-

113 or

35 per cent. 206 or 65 per cent.

Total

319

Of the Total Number of Post-Mortems held, those performed on Children sent from the Convents comprise 53 per cent. of the total number.

Post-Mortems on Convent Children :-

Under 2 weeks of age,

Males,

Females,

Over 2 weeks and under 2 years of age,..

Males,

Females,

122

48

74

197

65

132