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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The Infantile Mortality, recorded by the proportion of deaths
of children under one year of age to the number of births
registered, was 128 per 1,000 births, there having been 345 such
deaths during the year, as compared with 387 such deaths for last
year, an actual reduction of 42 deaths. The Infantile Mortality
throughout London equalled 130 per 1,000 births, as against 157
in the ten preceding years. The lowest rates of Infantile
Mortality were 88 in Hampstead, 92 in Lewisham, 95 in Holborn,
96 in St. Marylebone, 108 in Woolwich, and 109 in Wandsworth;
whilst the highest were 154 in Poplar, 158 in Bermondsey, 171 in
Shoreditch. Locally, the variations were from 108 per 1,000
births in Charlton, 127 in West Greenwich, 132 in East Greenwich,
and 143 in St. Nicholas; improvement in this respect
being in the district of St. Nicholas, which has improved from 219
deaths per 1,000 births last year to its present figure of 143 deaths
per 1,000 births.
AN ANALYSIS OF DEATH CAUSES.
All death causes are conveniently arranged under various
headings, and the subjoined table, a summary of Table in
Appendix shews the death rates for residents, per 1,000, living
in the Borough, according to the Registrar-General's classification
of diseases:—