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Lewisham 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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25
INFANT MORTALITY.
The infant mortality rate represents the proportion of
deaths of children under one year of age to every thousand
births registered.
During 1911, 357 children died before reaching the age
of one year, or nearly 20 per cent. of the whole of the deaths
in the Borough. The infant mortality rate is therefore 104 per
1,000 births, which is much higher than the rate for the
previous year (79), but is only very slightly higher than the
average for the previous ten years. The rate for the County of
London was 129 per 1,000, and for the 77 Great Towns, 140 per
1,000.
| Epidemic Diarrhoea and Enteritis | 114 |
| Debility and Marasmus | 59 |
| Premature Birth | 43 |
| Whooping Cough | 5 |
| Measles | 3 |
| Bronchitis | 24 |
| Pneumonia | 25 |
| Suffocation in bed with parents | 6 |
| Congenital Malformations | 14 |
| Atelactasis and Injury at Birth | 6 |
| Other causes | 58 |
| 357 |