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Different rates of mortality from different diseases and
groups of diseases are given in terms of the total deaths
(corrected1 and uncorrected) in Tables T and U; whilst Table
T gives also the deaths from the chief Infantile Diseases,
expressed in terms of the Infantile population (or number
of Births). Allowing for the slight differences between the
corrected and uncorrected death returns, it will be noted that,
in regard to both infantile and other diseases, Lambeth
again compares favourably with London (vide Table U).
Alllowing for (the favourable meteorological conditions
during 1909, favourable in so far as infantile life was concerned,
the statistics for Lambeth Borough throughout the
year 1909 are satisfactory—the corrected infantile mortality
rate, as a whole, being 98 per 1000 births, i.e., taking the
corrected number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age,
and the uncorrected number of births registered. Comparing
the Lambeth statistics with those for the large Provincial
Towns or the separate Metropolitan Districts, the Lambeth
Borough is to be congratulated upon the extraordinary
low rate of infantile mortality. In this connection, the influence
of the precautionary measures that are being taken
in Lambeth must be remembered, e.g., the systematic visiting
of houses wherein births and deaths of infants under 1 year
of age have been registered, the milk depot, the distribution
of pamphlets dealing with the proper feeding and management
of infants, etc., and the special work done by the
Council's Health Visitor.