By the Associated Press
Raleigh, Dec. 20—The total number of deaths among infants under one year of age in North Carolina during the year of 1923 were 6,865 or a ratio of 81.5 per 1,000 births, while the number of maternal deaths were 549 or a ratio of 6.5 per 1,000 births, it is shown in the annual report of the bureau of vital statistics. In 1922, the report shows, the ratio of infant deaths per 1,000 births was 79.1, making an increase of 2.4 deaths per 1,000 deaths for 1923 over 1922.
Washington county had the highest infant mortality rate with a ratio of 127.3 per 1,000 births and 48 deaths, while the largest number of such deaths were recorded in Forsyth county with 295 or a ratio of 111.3.
In the mortality rate of the infants, Orange county was second with a ratio of 122.9 and 61 deaths, and Vance was third with a ratio of 119.2 and 85 deaths.
Mecklenburg and Guilford counties ranked second and third in the number of infant deaths with 221 deaths and a ratio of 92.3 and 198 deaths and a ratio of 68.2, respectively.
Hoke county was first in the percentage of maternal deaths with a ratio of 20.2 per 1,000 births, or seven deaths, while Guilford was first in number of material deaths with 24 deaths and a ratio of 8.2 per 1,000 births.
Green county came second in percentage with 19.9 ratio and 12 deaths, and Washington county came third with a ratio of 18.5 and seven deaths.
In number of material deaths, Wake county came second with 18 deaths and a ratio of 7.5 while Buncombe county, Johnson county, and Pitt county were third, each with 17 deaths, but with respective ratios of 9.3, 9.1, and 10.2.
From page 16 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, Dec. 21, 1924. To see a table showing infant and maternal mortality for all counties, go to:
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84020730/1924-12-21/ed-1/seq-16/#words=DECEMBER+21%2C+1924
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