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Hammersmith 1924
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924
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Hammersmith is fourteenth on the list of the twenty-eight
Boroughs, and Ihe mortality rate is 3 per 1,000 higher than
the average for the whole of London.
The infant mortality rates of the London Boroughs varies
from 47 in Lewisham to 87 in Shoreditch.
The mortality figure for Hammersmith should at least be
not higher than that for the whole of London.
The following Chart shows the Infantile Mortality rate for the years
1908-1924.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
During the year the Ministry of Health issued Circular
No. 517, on Maternal Mortality, in which reference was made
to the Report of Dr. Janet Campbell, Senior Medical Officer
of the Ministry for Maternity and Child Welfare, on
" Maternal Mortality associated with Childbearing," and