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Infantile Mortality.
The deaths of infants under one year numbered 633, and
formed 24 7 per cen. of the total deaths. The "infantile
mortality," i.e., the number of deaths under one year per 1,000
births registered, was 131, being 26 below the decennial
average. This is the lowest infantile mortality ever recorded
in Battersea, and it would have been still lower had it not been
for a severe epidemic of measles in the second quarter of the
year. The infantile mortality in the County of London
was 129.
The mortality in the Borough and in each of the subdistricts
is given in the following table:—