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been divided into two classes, those which include the intraparochial
and extra-parochial deaths and those which only deal
with the intra-parochial:—
1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Intra-Parochial and Extra-Parochial 24.0 23.0 26.0 18.0 22.0 20.5 21.9 21.5 22.3 21.1
Intra-Parochial only 17.0 18.0 17.0 12.0 14.0 13.9 14.5 14.0 13.9 13.6
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The infantile mortality of a district is the annual number of deaths
of children under one year of age to every thousand births during the
same year. Such a return is of considerable value, for it is one of
the most reliable tests of the health of a community and of the
sanitary condition of a district. Migration does not greatly affect
the distribution of deaths at this early age, and life is very susceptible
to its surroundings. Hence this record of deaths affords
a delicate index as to the prevalence of disease and the external
circumstances of life affecting it.
During 1900 as we have seen there were 1,973 births. The total
deaths of infants under one year was 328, out of the whole total of
deaths of 1,403. The infant mortality rate is therefore 166.2 as
compared with 192.6 in 1899.
In the whole of London during J900 there were 20,927 deaths of
infants which is equal to 160 per thousand births, and this
corresponded to the mean rate for the ten preceeding years. The
lowest rates of infant mortality in 1900 were in Hampstead 100;
in St. George's, Hanover Square, 107; in Stoke Newington, 108;
in St. Giles, 118; and in Marylebone, 125. The highest rates were
192 in Poplar; 197 in St. Saviour's, Southwark; 205 in Rotherhithe;
209 in St. George's, Southwark; 228 in Limehouse; and 240