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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1909.
Of the 4,540 corrected deaths, 830 were infants under one
year of age. The total number of births is 8445, and of
these 579 occurred at the Lying-in Hospital, and belong to
districts outside Lambeth Borough. 25 occurred at the
Workhouse, and belong to districts outside Lambeth
Borough, and 353 occurred at the Maternity Hospital and
belong to districts outside Lambeth Borough. In this way,
the corrected number of births for Lambeth Borough is 7483.
The corrected infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected
deaths under one year per 1000 corrected births) is, therefore,
110.9. In calculating this infantile mortality, it must
be remembered that, whilst we subtract the births that belong
to outside districts, we do not add the births of infants
of Lambethian mothers 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 infantile mortality rate is 98.3.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (8445) and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (901), the
uncorrected infantile mortality is 106.7, as compared with
106.7 during 1908 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
(vide p. 95 and Table V in the Appendix). 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 199.7 per 1000 births
in Lambeth Church to 70.6 in Stockwell (the low rates or
105.1 in Waterloo, 134.6 in Kennington, and 70.7 in Stockwell,
being duc to the fact that these Sub-Districts contain