+-------------------------+------+ | Burns | 1 | | Malnutrition | 4 | | Syphilis | 4 | | Tuberculosis Meningitis | 3 | | Pneumonia | 51 | | Tuberculosis | 5 | | Enteritis | 21 | | Premature | 9 | | Meningitis | 2 | | Bronchitis | 4 | | Influenza | 2 | | Asphyxia | 4 | | Hemorrhage | 1 | | Convulsions | 6 | | Diphtheria | 2 | | Rickets | 1 | | Heart Disease | 8 | | Mumps | 1 | | Poliomyelitis | 1 | | ----- | --- | | TOTAL | 130 | +-------------------------+------+ That the infant mortality rate among colored people is much higher than among the white groups, is generally believed and it is not surprising to find that the mortality among Negro infants in Pittsburgh is much greater than the infant mortality rate for the entire city. Figures for the year 1916-17 were unobtainable. The records of the Department of Health show that during the year 1915 one hundred and four children per thousand born in Pittsburgh, died in their first year. There were three hundred and fifty-six Negro births in the first seven months of 1917. During the same period eighty-seven Negro children died under one year. Of this number fifty-nine had been born between January and July 1917, which means that one hundred and sixty-six children per thousand die in their first seven months. This clearly indicates that the death rate of Negro infants is far above the death rate of white infants. Table No. XXV also shows the cause of deaths of children under five years of age who died within the last seven months. At least half of these deaths were due to preventable disorders, as is apparent from the figures in the same table. _TABLE NUMBER XXVI_ _Colored Bodies Received and Disposed of in Morgue, First Six Months During 1915 as Compared with First Six Months During 1917_. +-------------------------+------+------+ | | 1915 | 1917 | +-------------------------+------+------+ | Identified and Claimed | 13 | 32 | | Identified and Cremated | 5 | 13 | | Unknown and Cremated | 1 | 2 | | | --- | --- | | | 19 | 47 | +---------------------------------------+