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House, and 6 at the Hammersmith Infirmary, the
corrected number of deaths of Residents registered
last year was 1,773. On the before-mentioned estimated
population, the corrected number of deaths of
Residents, registered last year was equal to an annual
rate of 14.7 deaths per 1,000 persons living. The
death-rate in London on the estimated population of
London up to the middle of the year was equal to an
annual rate of 15.1 deaths per 1,000 persons living.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
The corrected number of deaths of Residents
under one year of age registered last year was 433,
against 414 in the previous year. The number of
deaths of infants under one year of age registered last
year was equal to 244 per 1,000 of the total deaths of
Residents registered, and to 143 per 1,000 of the
total registered births. The number of deaths of
infants under one year of age in London last year was
equal to 229 per 1,000 of the total deaths registered,
and 130 per 1,000 of the total registered births. The
mortality rate of infants under one year of age was,
as compared with the total deaths of Residents
registered, 15 per 1,000, and, as compared with the
total births registered, 13 per 1,000 greater in this
Borough than in London. The difference between
the deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000
births registered and the same deaths in London was
due to the large number of deaths of infants that
occurred from Summer diarrhœa. In the previous
year the infantile mortality rate in this Borough was
only 2 per 1,000 more than in London as compared
with the total births registered. It is interesting to
note that, notwithstanding the fact that your Council
appointed a Lady Health Visitor with the object of
lessening the infantile mortality, it has actually gone
up 11 per 1,000 as compared with London. These
facts rather tend to prove, as I advised you, that the