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Chelsea 1909

Annual report for 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE X.

TABLE X.

Year.Chelsea.London.
Deaths under one to 1,000 births.Deaths 1—5 years.Deaths under one to 1,000 births.Deaths 1—5 years.
19011391461011121501429,5149,209
19021451511419,893
1903144941318,514
19041551021458,915
190511612165881311248,2098,122
19061401221338,639
19071221011188,435
1908108641157,207
1909107851077,555

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The year 1909, like the year 1908, was on the whole favourable to a
low rate of infantile mortality, there being no great prevalence of measles,
whooping cough, diarrhœa, or other complaints which tend to raise the
infantile death-rate.
The contrast between the rates of infantile mortality in the
Industrial Dwellings and in the poorest class of streets in the Borough is
still apparent (see Table IX.), although less marked than in 1908. The
rate for the 10 poor-class streets (138 per 1,000) is an improvement upon
that of 1908 (148 per 1,000), and a very great improvement upon that of
1907 and of previous years, when the average was about 200 per 1,000.

Table: TABLE XI.

TABLE XI.

1909.
Birth-rate.Infantile Mortality Rate.
Hans Town Ward13.074
Royal Hospital13.9107
Church20.1149
Cheyne17.092
Stanley24.2104
Chelsea Borough18.7107

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The above Table shows the birth-rates and infantile mortality rates
in the five wards of the Borough. The births occurring in the Chelsea
Workhouse and in outlying institutions have been distributed amongst
the various wards. As in 1908, Stanley Ward had the highest birth-rate.
The highest rate of infantile mortality is seen to be in Church Ward, and
the lowest in Hans Town.