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County Lunatic Asylums and Metropolitan Imbecile
Asylums, and deducting 210 deaths of non-residents
which occurred, 163 at the West London Hospital,
24 at Nazareth House, 23 at the Hammersmith
Infirmary, the corrected number of deaths of residents
registered last year was 1,757. On the beforementioned
estimated population, the corrected number
of deaths of residents registered last year was equal
to an annual rate of 14.2 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 14.5 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 383 against
362 in the previous year. The number of deaths of
infants under one year of age registered last year was
equal to 218 per 1,000 of the total deaths of residents
registered, and to 123 per 1,000 of the total registered
births. The number of deaths of infants under one
year of age, residents in London last year, was equal
to 203 per 1,000 of the total deaths registered, and 115
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 8 per 1,000 greater in this Borough than in
London. The increase in number of cases of diarrhoea
which occurred last year, as compared with the
previous year, was the cause of the increase of the
infantile mortality in this Borough as compared with
the previous year. The infantile mortality rate in
this Borough has, however, not decreased as compared
with the County of London since the year 1905.
The following table on infantile mortality has
been prepared by me in accordance with the direction
of the Local Government Board.