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Infantile Mortality.
The deaths of infants under one year numbered 657, and
formed 25*4 per cent, of the total deaths. The " infantile
mortality, ' i.e., the number of deaths under one year per
1,000 births registered, was 136, being no less than twentyseven
below the decennial average. This is the lowest
infantile mortality figure ever recorded in Battersea, the
lowest figure reached in previous years being 146 in 1894.
The infantile mortality in the County of London was 139.
The mortality in the Borough and in each of the sub-districts
is given in the following table:—