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The deaths of children under the age of one year,
numbering 126, gives a percentage rate of 21.5 of the
deaths at all ages, as against 26.1 in 1907, 29.3 in 1906,
26.0 in 1905, 29.3 in 1904, 25.5 in 1903, and 25.0 in
1902.
The amount of Mortality in England and Wales
among infants under one year of age to 1000 registered
births, was 121, which is 3 per 1000 above the rate in 1907.
The rate in 1908 was, with the exception of that recorded
in the previous year, lower than the rate in any other year
on record. Compared with the average in the ten years
1898-1907, the rate of infantile mortality in 1908 showed
a decrease of 21 per 1000.
The deaths of children between the ages of one and
five years, numbering 75, gives a percentage of 12.8 of
total deaths, as against 10.7 in 1907, 12.9 in 1906, 7.7 in
1905, 8.0 in 1904, and 6.7 in 1903.