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Deaths by Months.

Table showing Age at Death, Samoans, 1925.

Infant Mortality. During the first six months of the year there were 1,015 live births, and 111 deaths of children under one year of age, ail infant mortality at the rate of 109 deaths per thousand births per annum. During the second six months the births numbered 1,018 and the deaths of infants 268, giving an annual rate of 263 deaths per thousand births. The marked increase was, as already stated, due to the prevalence of whooping-cough and to the exceptionally dry season experienced, with an inevitable rise in the enteritis rate amongst infants. The rate would have been very much higher but for the work of the two lady doctors, who had the disheartening task of attempting to reduce the infant-mortality rate under such adverse conditions. The infant-mortality rate for the whole year was 186 per thousand live births (379 deaths to 2,033 births). Percentage of Deaths at Different Ages to Total Deaths. 1924. 1925. Percentage Percentage Number. of Total Number. of Total Deaths. Deaths. Under 1 week .. .. .. 34 4-44 50 5-83 From 1 week to 1 month .. 25 3-26 36 4-20 From 1 month to 3 months .. .. 28 3-66 51 5-95 From 3 months to 6 months .. .. 44 5-74 100 11-67 From 6 months to 12 months .. .. 164 21-41 142 16-57 Total under 1 year .. .. .. 295 .. 38-51 379 .. 44-22 From 1 year to 2 years .. .. .. 99 12-93 97 11-32 From 2 years to 3 years .. .. 31 4-05 31 3-62 From 3 years to 5 years .. .. 29 3-78 29 3-38 From 5 years to 10 years .. .. 25 3-26 28 3-27 Total 1 year to 10 years .. .. 184 .. 24-02 185 .. 21-59 Over 10 years .. .. .. .. 287 37-47 37-47 293 34-19 34-19 766 100-00 100-00 857 100-00 100-00

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