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The mortality of infants under one year attending Ilford infant
welfare centres was 26.3 per 1,000, as compared with 53.1 per
1,000 in those not attending an Ilford infant welfare centre
(excluding the deaths of those children dying in the Girls' Village
Homes).
It must be remembered in considering these figures, that
rarely is a baby brought to a welfare centre under one month of
age. whereas half the deaths occur in this period.
It would be a fairer comparison to state that of the 38 children
who died between the age of one month and one year (all of whom
might have been in attendance at a welfare centre), only 16 had
attended an infant welfare centre, or, in other words, that 58 per
cent, of the deaths of children between one month and one year
of age occurred in children who had never attended an infant
welfare centre.
Neonatal Mortality.
The death-rate of infants under 4 weeks of age is known as
the Neonatal Mortality.
There were 41 deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age during
1928, and the rate for the year was 23 6 per 1,000 births.

Table IV gives the deaths of infants under one year of age,
classified according to age. It will be noticed that prematurity
still causes the greatest number of deaths,