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Though the figures may, and often do, differ, each is accurate
and of service for purposes of comparison, just as the “crude”
and “corrected” death rates mentioned at pages 18&19 are accurate
and of service.
The first infantile mortality rate is that calculated on the number
of deaths mentioned above, and the total number of births registered
as having occurred in the Borough, whether inside or outside
institutions, and whether or not the parents belonged to Finsbury.
The number of registered births for 1908, it will be remembered,
was 3,474.
These two figures, viz., 400 and 3,474, are those asked for in the
Local Government Board Tables, in which no account is taken
of outside births, and on them an infantile mortality rate may be
worked out.
For the year 1008, the rate so calculated is 115. In the accompanying
table this figure is compared with the rates calculated
in the same way for the years since 1871-80:—

Registrar General's Returns.
†Crude Rates