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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1904.
Of the 4,880 corrected deaths, 1248 were infants under one
year of age. The total number of births is 9059, and of these
317 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 8713. The
infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected deaths under one
year per 1000 corrected births) is, therefore, 143.2. In calculating
this infantile mortality, it must be remembered that,
whilst we substract the births that belong to outside
districts, we do not add the births amongst Lambethians who
may happen to be residing outside the Borough at the time
of such births. Taking the uncorrected births and the corrected
deaths under 1 year, the corrected infantile mortality rate is 137.8.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (9059), and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (1328), the
uncorrected infantile mortality is 146.6, as compared with 121.7
during 1903, 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, diarrhœa,
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 289.9 per 1000 births in Lambeth
Church 1st to 100.9 in Waterloo Road 2nd (the rates of 100.9 in
Waterloo Road 2nd and 165.9 in Lambeth Church 2nd being due
to the fact that these Sub-Districts contain the General Lying-in
Hospital and the Workhouse respectively), thus:—