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Table No. I.—Number of Births P.A., Birth-rates, Neo-natal Death, Still-birth, and Maternal Death-rates

Table II. —Puerperal Mortality, 1947 (European), showing Number of Deaths and their Proportion to Live Births

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(Average rates for each year from 1943 to 1947) 1943. 1944. 1945. 1946. 1947. Number of live births per annum .. .. E. 30,311 33,599 37,007 41,871 44,816 M. 4,440 4,508 4,644 5,776 4,988 Live-birth rate .. .. .. .. E. 19-70 21-59 23-22 25-24 26-42 M. 45-78 45-32 46-09 56-49 46-86 Combined 21-25 23-01 24-58 27-05 27-63 Still-birth rate per 1,000 total births .. .. E. 26-25 23-23 22-84 21-75 19-92 Neo-natal death-rate per 1,000 live births .. E. 21-28 20-60 19-59 19-08 18-08 M. 18-92 19-30 26-05 18-35 17-84 Still-birth rate and neo-natal death-rate com- E. 46-97 43-35 41-98 40-42 31-63 bined per 1,000 total births Maternal-mortality rate (including septic abor- E. 2-21 2-71 2-24 2-05 1-07 tion) per 1,000 live births Maternal-mortality rate (excluding septic abor- E. 1-71 2-14 1-94 1-76 0-85 tion) per 1,000 live births E. = European ; 2 (I. = Maori.

Number Death-rate of per 1,000 Deaths. Live Births. Septic abortion 10 0-22 Puerperal sepsis folJowing childbirth 3 0-07 Accidents of labourPlacenta praevia 2^ Post-partum haemorrhage 2 Puerperal embolism and thrombosis without puerperal 3 sepsis >15 0-34 Other— Obstretrical shock and heart-failure 5 Ruptured uterus 3^ Toxaemia of pregnancy— Eclampsia 51 Puerperal toxaemia (pre-eclamptic) 6 J>12 0-26 Acute yellow atrophy of liver 1J Accidents of pregnancy — Abortion (non-septic) 21 Ectopic gestation 5 y 7 0-16 Ante-partum haemorrhage, without delivery • •J Parturition (unspecified) 1 0-02 Total maternal deaths — Excluding septic abortion 38 0-85 Including septic abortion 48 1-07