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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Notification of Births Act, 1907;
Discrepancies in Registration of Births;
The Appointment of the Health Visitor;
Poplar Health Visiting Association. (See page 286);
— Working Class Women Bill;
Midwives (No. 2) Bill [H.L.].
There were 201 deaths of children under one year of age belonging
to Poplar, 254 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bromley, and
151 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bow, making a total for the
Borough of 606.† The death rates of children under one year per 1,000
births for the past 17 years being:—
Borough of County of
Poplar. Bromley. Bow. Poplar. London.
1894 152 152 158 — —
1895 190 184 177 — —
1896 177 168 184 - —
1897 172 164 181 — —
1898 172 198 216 — —
1899 183 174 177 — —
1900 182 179 234 — —
1901 156 167 174 165 148
1902 162 152 141 153 141
1903 140 178 125 152 131
1904 141 158 159 152 146
1905 148 161 143 152 131
1906 157 152 148 153 131
1907 116.49 134.11 119.49 124.40 116
1908 118.49 126.50 119.36 123.83 113
1909 128.92 132.86 128.32 130.40 108
1910 114.79 119.81 125.31 119.38** 103‡
*For Tables of Infantile Mortality, see Tables XIII., XIV., XV. and XVI.
pages 61, 62, 63 and 64.
†The 606 deaths of infants under one year of age include deaths in outlying institutions
and allow for deductions of non-residents.
The actual deaths inside the Borough without deducting non-residents and not
including deaths occurring in outlying institutions were 537—163 Poplar, 261 Bromley
and 113 Bow.
**See Health Visitor's Report (page 285). Mortality rate among infants visited
was 98.75 per 1000. The infants visited are for the most part in the poorest portions
of the Borough.
‡In the County of London during the year 1910 there were 114,870 children born
of whom 11,809 died under one year of age. "The rate in 1910 was only 103 per
1,000 births. This is the lowest London rate recorded, and is 29 per 1,000 below the
average in the preceding 10 years."—Registrar-General.