Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1921
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The distribution of the 276 infant deaths and the infant mortality-rates, both for the registration sub-districts and for the Wards, is shown in the following tables:—
Registration Sub-Districts. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | Infantile Mortality per 1,000 births. | ||||||
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M. | F | TOTAL. | ||||||
East Battersea | 78 | 50 | 128 | 76.8 | ||||
North West Battersea | 52 | 44 | 96 | 74.5 | ||||
South West Battersea | 32 | 20 | 52 | 66.1 | ||||
The Borough | 162 | 114 | 276 | 73.8 |
The next table shows the incidence of mortality from the
chief diseases of infancy in the first and second trimesters and
during the ages 6 to 12 months:—