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Table X.
Year.
Chelsea.
London.
Deaths under one
to 1,000 births.
Deaths 1—5
years.
Deaths under one
to 1,000 births.
Deaths 1—5
years.
1901
139
146
101
112
150
142
9,514
9,209
1902
145
151
141
9,893
1903
144
94
131
8,514
1901
155
102
145
8,915
1905
116
65
131
8,209
1906
140
122
133
8,639
1907
122
101
118
8,435
1908
108
64
115
7,207
The year 1908 was, on the whole, favourable to a low rate of infantile
mortality, there being no great prevalence of measles, whooping cough,
diarrhoea, and other complaints which tend to raise the infantile deathrate.
Still, as stated in the Annual Report for 1907, there seems to
have set in a period of lowered infantile mortality, of which the explan
ation appears to lie in the efforts now being made to help and influence
the mothers of the infants, these efforts having commenced in 1905, when
the first considerable reduction in the mortality rate became apparent.
The contrast between the rates of infantile mortality in the Industrial
Dwellings and in the poorest class of streets in the Borough is still
apparent, as shown in Table IX. The rate for the 11 poor-class streets
(148 per 1,000) is much lower than in 1907, when it was 204 per 1,000,
but is still nearly treble the rate of the Industrial Dwellings population
(53 per 1,000).
The difference in the rates of infantile mortality in the various
Wards of the Borough are not nearly so marked as in 1907, when
Church Ward had by far the highest rate.
Table XI.
1908.
Birth-rate.
Infantile Mortality
Rate.
Hans Town Ward
14.0
119
Royal Hospital „
13.5
117
Church „
23.9
105
Cheyne „
19.7
75
Stanley „
26.3
110
Chelsea Borough
20.2
108