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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1904
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops
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The infant mortality rates for each division of the Borough and also for the Borough itself, since its formation may therefore, he set forth as follows: —
| The Borough. | North Clerkenwell. | South Clerkenwell. | Finsbury (St. Luke). | St. Sepulchre. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | |
| 1901 | 461 | 141.7 | 158 | 149.2 | 124 | 1396 | 172 | I37.0 | 6 | 162.1 |
| 1902 | 558 | 174.9 | 183 | 173.3 | 152 | 172.7 | 217 | 178.4 | 6 | 157.9 |
| 1903 . | 503 | 159.1 | 163 | 153.8 | 125 | 142.2 | 210 | 176.5 | 5 | 151.5 |
| 1904 | 522 | 168.6 | 191 | 177.2 | 123 | 147.8 | 206 | 178.7 | 2 | 60.6 |
As regards age distribution of infants' deaths, as a general rule it may be said that they diminish from the first month onwards to the twelfth. The following table gives the age incidence for 1904:—
| Months. | 0- | 1— | 2— | 3— | 4- | 5— | 6— | 7- | 8- | 9- | 10- | 11- | Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 9 | 10 | |||||||||||
| 7 | 7 | J4 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 123 | ||||||
| 44 | 22 | 26 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||
| 122 • | 49 | 37 | 41 | 26 | 39 | 25 | 21 | 53 |
*The returns for 1901 are those of intra-parochial deaths of infants only, the returns for
1902-04 include all the deaths of infants. Throughout the table, births taking place in
the City of London Lying-in Hospital, but not belonging to Finsbury, have been
excluded.