Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1909
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40 mortality of childhood.
TABLE 32. Infantile Mortality : Fully corrected rates. Per 1,000 births.
Locality. | Males. | Females. | Persons. | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1909. | 1908. | 1907. | 1906. | 1905. | 1909. | 1908. | 1907. | 1906. | 1905. | 1909. | 1908. | 1907. | 1906. | 1905. | ||
Borough | 106 | 118 | 131 | 115 | 128 | 99 | 92 | 87 | 99 | 109 | 102 | 105 | 110 | 107 | 118 | |
Wards. | Queen's Park | 85 | 110 | 115 | 96 | 164 | 58 | 69 | 92 | 87 | 76 | 73 | 90 | 105 | 92 | 122 |
Harrow Road | 92 | 113 | 137 | 90 | 116 | 58 | 68 | 75 | 58 | 113 | 74 | 92 | 106 | 75 | 115 | |
Maida Vale | 81 | 101 | 118 | 145 | 116 | 102 | 99 | 96 | 69 | 124 | 91 | 100 | 108 | 107 | 120 | |
Westbourne | 101 | 99 | 102 | 123 | 111 | 111 | 118 | 98 | 120 | 120 | 106 | 108 | 100 | 121 | 112 | |
Church | 165 | 149 | 154 | 140 | 151 | 146 | 126 | 99 | 155 | 141 | 154 | 138 | 128 | 146 | 146 | |
Lancaster Gate, West | 30 | 29 | 97 | 62 | 83 | 100 | 29 | 64 | 32 | 28 | 63 | 29 | 83 | 48 | 55 | |
„ East | 61 | 69 | 125 | 86 | 41 | 133 | 58 | 60 | 83 | 71 | 83 | 61 | 92 | 85 | 55 | |
Hyde Park | 59 | 163 | 163 | 103 | 130 | 131 | 74 | 47 | 154 | 41 | 93 | 122 | 107 | 126 | 86 |
The changes in the annual rates given in Table 32 are too erratic to permit of any
study of the differences in the mortalities in the Wards. "Index numbers" have, therefore,
been calculated (Table 33) based on the experience of the past five years, during which the
births and deaths have been corrected as fully as possible. The favourable position of
Lancaster Gate, West, Ward is well shown. The contrast between the numbers for that
Ward and Church Ward are striking. The numbers for the two most northern Wards—
Queen's Park and Harrow Road—are surprisingly low, and compare favourably with those
for Hyde Park. Some allowance must, doubtless, be made in the case of the last named
Ward for the small numbers from which the " index numbers" are derived.
TABLE 33. Mean Infantile Mortality: Index Numbers.
Locality. | Total Births. 1905.-09 Corrected. | Total Deaths. 1905-09 Corrected. | Mean Mortality. | Index Numbers. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F | P. | M. | F. | P. | ||
Queen's Park | 1,137 | 1,022 | 130 | 79 | 114 | 77 | 96 | 168 | 124 | 148 | |
Wards. | Harrow Road | 2,043 | 2,015 | 225 | 151 | 110 | 74 | 92 | 161 | 119 | 141 |
Maida Vale | 1,059 | 1,037 | 120 | 102 | 113 | 98 | 106 | 166 | 158 | 163 | |
Westbourne | 1,209 | 1,197 | 130 | 134 | 107 | 112 | 110 | 157 | 181 | 169 | |
Church | 2,001 | 1,778 | 304 | 237 | 151 | 133 | 143 | 222 | 214 | 220 | |
Lancaster Gate, West | 176 | 162 | 11 | 8 | 62 | 49 | 56 | 91 | 79 | 86 | |
Lancaster Gate, East | 178 | 162 | 13 | 12 | 73 | 74 | 73 | 107 | 119 | 112 | |
Hyde Park | 498 | 444 | 61 | 40 | 122 | 90 | 107 | 179 | 145 | 165 | |
Borough | 8,301 | 7,817 | 994 | 763 | 120 | 98 | 109 | 179 | 158 | 168 | |
Lancaster Gate, East and West | 354 | 324 | 24 | 20 | 68 | 62 | 65 | 100 | 100 | 100 |