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When a further analysis is made, and the Wards split up into
smaller areas, it is found that certain parts of Hampstead have a
very high infantile mortality. I have not been able to make a
systematic analysis of the whole Borough, but I have extracted the
figures for two areas. One of these is the area comprising Netherwood
Street, Palmerston Road, Kelson Street, Linstead Street, and Lowfield
Road. This area at the Census of 1901 had a population of
3,049 and there is good reason to conclude that this number has
undergone little, if any change since. In the five years 1902-1906,
the number of births was 588, and the birth-rate per 1000 population
was 38.6. The number of deaths at all ages was 285, equivalent
to a death-rate of 18.7 per 1000 population. In the same period
the number of deaths of children under one year was 82, and the
infantile mortality, or proportion of the deaths under one year per
1000 births registered was 139.5. The corresponding figures in the
Kilburn Ward, of which this area forms part, and in the whole
Borough were 112.7 and 91.3 respectively.
The other area is that known as the Kilburn Vale area which
comprises the following:—
Abbey Lane Munden Cottages
Edward Terrace Providence Place
Kilburn Vale West End Lane (7 houses in)
King's Cottages William Terrace
The population of this area was enumerated in a special census
taken by the late Medical Officer of Health in 1903, and was found
to be 360. From the special report of the late Medical Officer of
Health for which this census was taken, it appears that during the
five years 1898-1902, the number of births in this area was 46, and
the number of infant deaths 10, giving a mortality of 217 per 1000
births. I have ascertained the corresponding figures for the four
years 1903-1906. In this period the number of births was 44 and
the number of infant deaths 10. This is equivalent to a mortality
of 227 per 1000 births. The average annual infantile mortality in
the Kilburn Vale area during the nine years 1898-1906 was 222, the
total number of births being 90 and the deaths of infants 20. The
figures for the Kilburn Vale area are, of course, small, but they are
fairly uniform from year to year, and relating as they do to a period
of nine years they may be taken as indicating that the conditions
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