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mortality lies It was in the neo-natal period—that is within the
first month—that 23 out of the total 27 deaths occurred. Last
year it was 34 out of 41 and in the previous year 28 out of a
total of 28. The welfare authorities have succeeded in bringing
the mortality down from 130, 30 years ago, to its present 30-40
per thousand. This reduction took place almost entirely in the
group over a month old, there having been no corresponding
reduction in the neo-natal group. It may be of interest that the
infant mortality in Merton and Morden in 1898 was 212 per
thousand live births, or 21 percent. of infants born that year
did not survive their infancy. Today our infant mortality is
24 8 per thousand and only on two occassions has this been lower.