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table, which shows the average mortality for the five years
1902-1906 inclusive, it is evident that the mortality varies greatly in
the different Wards.
Ward.
Deaths of Infants
per 1000 births,
1902-1906.
No. 1 (Town) 101
No. 2 (Belsize) 71
No. 3 (Adelaide) 79
No. 4 (Central) 75
No. 5 (West End) 76
No. 6 (Kilburn) 108
No. 7 (Priory) 92
The Borough 91
In considering these figures, it must be borne in mind that the
weather in some of these years was favourable to a low infantile
mortality, and that a series of hot dry summers would, in the absence
of additional remedial action, have given rise to a much heavier loss of
life. The preceding table shows that the mortality in the Kilburn, Town
and Priory Wards is distinctly higher than in the four other Wards,
and that the rate in the Kilburn Ward is the highest of all. If,
instead of taking the whole mortality of infants from all causes, we
take that from the most directly preventable of the causes of death,
namely, diarrhoea, the Wards are placed in much the same order,
except that the position of the West End Ward is worse than in
the former table.
Ward.
Deaths from Diarrhœa
and Enteritis per 1000
births, 1902-1906.
No. 1 (Town) 12.2
No. 2 (Belsize) 2.8
No. 3 (Adelaide) 4.1
No. 4 (Central) 5.9
No. 5 (West End) 9.2
No. 6 (Kilburn) 11.7
No. 7 (Priory) 7.6