DEATH RATE OF STATE INFANTS BY AGE-PERIODS
10
Complied from 0)cases, being all the infanks laken by he Daparlment during the Seren
years ending December 3, 1892,based on lires and dealhs while in care of the Deparlmenl
The fiqures at the side give deaths per 100 children per week
AGE PERIOD.
WEEKS
MONTHS
10
I
2 30
3
8
Lives
each age-period
2
24
30
36
60
a:
28 276 278 26/
2/7
260 279
Deathe
25
241
234
223
94
130 5
167
Total Children in each age-period
%uf deaths
g of deaths per week in each ape period o /04 392 3. 2. .98 18
32
24
22
12
32
15
67
45
248 292 303 295 298 29
/0 8 | /2.s 06 727 738 446
274 263 248 236 227 209 (72 432
4s6 282
7
Only the first bwo years of life
2/
29 2
43
a6
are shown graphically
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Deaths by classes of Infants, and
by period after being received.
Deaths last 7 years.
Average
Age
Class at taking
Per Cent
lt will be observed that 5/%of
the deaths accurred within the first two Destitute
MOnths after the infants were taken Committed by
to the care of the department and that in
the case of infants received from Balby
Farms two thids of the deaths ccurred
within the first month, indicating
to how great an extent the dealh rale is
attributable to the bad condition of
the children when taken.
in 1892
of Deaths
Faundlings
2mos 4 days
268
12297
14
13
58
I08
40.39
13
36
67
22. 55
Court because negly 9m.20d
lected by parents.)
Taken from
Baby-Farms. 3 m. 1 d
Moribund
46
4.33
2
2
4
39
8
8
69.23
27
Legitimate
placed by parents 5m. 23d.
26
2
1
2
1
6
23.08
in care of the Board.
3
Illegitimate,
placed by mothers ( 6mos
in care of Board 23 days.
for adoption
25
2
2
2
28.
7
2
Totals 701 45 40 25 107 217
Per Cent
21
18 12 49 100
1
FIRST YEAR
o 2 1
to 3
anAs
to
manths
fte7
onths
Ste
Ianths
8to9
Months
9tol0
lanths
tol2
months
enths
Bonths
Moaths
SECOND
YEAR.
There being no deaths in the first week after birth is doubtless, in part accidental, owing
to the small number of children received at that early age only 32 during the 7years
obeingre
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