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Infantile Mortality.
The deaths of infants under one year numbered 671, and
formed 27.1 per cent, of the total deaths. The " infantile
mortality," i.e., the number of deaths under one year per
1,000 births registered, was 135, being no less than 26 below
the decennial average. This is the lowest infantile mortality
figure ever recorded in Battersea, the lowest figure reached
in previous years being 136 in 1902. The infantile mortality
in the County of London was 129. The mortality in the
Borough and in each of the sub-districts is given in the
following table:—