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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1903.
Of the 4,664 corrected deaths, 1,188 were infants under one
year of age. The total number of births is 9,069, and of these
375 occurred at the Lying-in Hospital, and belong to districts
outside Lambeth Borough, and 29 occurred at the Workhouse,and
belong also to districts outside Lambeth Borough. In this way, the
corrected number of births for Lambeth Borough is 8,665. The
corrected infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected deaths under one
year per 1,000 corrected births) is, therefore, 131'3. In calculating
this corrected infantile mortality, it must be remembered that,
whilst we substract the births amongst persons who are not
Lambethians, we do not add the births amongst Lambethians
who may happen to be residing elsewhere at the time of such
births. Taking the uncorrected births and the corrected deaths
under 1 year, the infantile mortality rate is 125*5.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (9,069), and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (1,194), the
uncorrected infantile mortality is 131*7, as compared with 134*0
during 1902, and an average of 150*5 for the old Parish of Lambeth
during 10 years (1891-1900). The chief causes of these
deaths were debility, atrophy and inanition, whooping cough,
bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory organs, diarrhoea,
premature births, and convulsions. Table J gives the infantile
mortality in different towns in England and Wales, and in the
London Districts.
In the Registration Sub-Districts of Lambeth, the uncorrected
infantile mortality varies from 266 4 per 1,000 births in Lambeth
Church 1st to 79*2 in Waterloo Road 2nd (the rates of 79 2 in
Waterloo Road 2nd and 153*8 in Lambeth Church 2nd being due
to the fact that these Sub-Districts contian the General Lying-in
Hospital and the Workhouse respectively), thus:-