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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
It is noteworthy that in Church Ward, where the tubercular mortality was highest last year,
the "cancer " mortality was lowest. In Lancaster Gate (West) Ward the "cancer" mortality was
only 0 88 and the tubercular 037, the lowest of the series.
In Table 28 the incidence of mortality quâ sex and age is given, and in Table 29 the deaths
have been tabulated according to the nature of the "malignant" growth and the part affected.
The corresponding returns for previous years for the Borough are not yet ready, but will be
taken out during the current year.
No returns are available as to prevalence in the adjacent districts or elsewhere.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During the year 484 deaths were registered at ages under 1 year, equal to a mortality
of 144 per 1,000 births registered. After correcting for deaths of non-residents and for deaths
of residents registered outside the Borough, a nett total of 455 deaths is obtained, equal to
a rate of 135 per 1,000 births registered* Information has not yet been obtained of the
number of births recorded in North-West Paddington during 1891-1900, so that no comparison
can be made for the Borough with the numbers of previous years.
The deaths recorded in each quarter of the year will be found in Table 30, and more
detail as to numbers dying during the year at various ages under 1 year in Table 31.
In St. Mary's Registration Sub-District the mortality last year was at the rate of 138
per 1,000 births, compared with a mean rate of 156; in St. John the rate last year was
102, and the mean rate 132; and in North-West Paddington last year's rate was 142.
In the adjacent districts the mortality ranged from 104 per 1,000 births in Hampstead
to 163 in Kensington. (See Table 24.) The rate of 106 in Marylebone is in all probability
due to the presence of Queen Charlotte's Hospital swelling the number of births registered,
while the infants die in other districts. In the Metropolis the rate last year was 147, compared
with a decennial mean of 160. (See Table 26.)
The number of deaths due to each of certain selected causes of death will be found in
Table 32. In the absence of any comparative returns little can be said. Attention may,
however, be called to the total number of deaths due to "Diseases of Development" and to
" Infantile Diarrhœa" in all its forms.

* It should be noted that it is impossible to correct the births as is done in the case of the deaths. Unknown
numbers of non-resident women are delivered at the Infirmary, and of resident at the Queen Charlotte and other
lying-in hospitals.