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MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the 2,115 deaths registered, 466, or 22 per cent., were of
infants under one year of age, and the rate of infant mortality,
measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births
registered in Fulham, was 111 per 1,000, and 108 per 1,000
after the inclusion of the births in the metropolitan maternity
institutions.
This is the lowest infantile death-rate yet recorded, and
is 33 per 1,000 below the average rate of the preceding ten
years.
The corresponding rate of the County of London was the
same as that of Fulham, and in eleven metropolitan boroughs
the infantile mortality was higher, and in seventeen lower,
than in Fulham, the rates ranging from 75 per 1,000 in Hampstead
to 140 per 1,000 in Shoreditch.
England and Wales had an infantile mortality rate of
109 and the seventy-live large provincial towns one of 122
per 1,000.
The decline in infantile mortality of recent years will be
seen from the subjoined table, and although climatic conditions
have doubtless been an important factor in the reduction,
and especially so in 1909, there are grounds for thinking that
the administrative measures aiming at the instruction of
nursing and prospective mothers have been attended with
some measure of success.