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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1952

Pre-Natal Mortality

Year

Stillbirths

Stillbirth rate

1946

685

21.6

1947

1,348

30.8

1948

1,251

25.7

1949

1,321

23.5

1950

1,343

22.2

1951

1,180

17.2

1952

1,157

16.1

Neo-Natal Mortality

The numbers of deaths of children under

4

weeks

have been as follows:

Number of

Neo-natal

Year

deaths

mortality rate

1946

1,001

32.2

1947

1,463

34.4

1948

1,433

30.2

1949

1,609

29.4

1950

1,819

30.0

1951

2,141

31.3

1952

1,890

26.3

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