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Infantile Mortality.
The deaths of infants under one year numbered 715, and
formed 28.1 per cent, of the total deaths. The "infantile
mortality,'' i.e., the number of deaths under one year per 1,000
births registered, was 147, being 10 below the decennial
average. The infantile mortality was distinctly higher in 1904
than in the two previous years. This is due to the fact that
the weather in the third quarter of 1904 was unusually hot
and dry, whereas in the third quarters of 1902-3 the weather
was unusually cold and wet. When the infantile mortality in
1904 is compared with that in previous years since 1894, it
cannot be considered excessive, although it is, of course, far
higher than it ought to be. The infantile mortality in the
County of London was 146. The mortality in the Borough and
in each of the sub-districts is given in the following table :—