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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1905.
Of the 4646 corrected deaths, 1014 were infants under one
year of age. The total number of births is 8835, and of these
211 occurred at the Lying-in Hospital, and belong to districts
outside Lambeth Borough, and 25 occurred at the Workhouse,and
belong also to districts outside Lambeth Borough. In this way, the
corrected number of births for Lambeth Borough is 8599. The
corrected infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected deaths under one
year per lOOO corrected births) is, therefore, 117.9. In calculating
this infantile mortality, it must be remembered that,
whilst we substract the births that belong to outside districts,
we do not add the births of infants of Lambethian mothers
who may happen to be residing outside the Borough at the time
of such births. Taking the uncorrected births and the corrected
deaths under 1 year, the infantile mortality rate is 114.8.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (8835), and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (1127), the
uncorrected infantile mortality is 127.6, as compared with 146.6
during 1904, and an average of 150.5 for the old Parish of Lambeth
during 10 years (1891-1900). The chief causes of these
deaths were debility, atrophy and inanition, whooping cough,
bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory organs, diarrhoea,
premature births, and convulsions (vide p. 92 and Table V. in
the Appendix pp. 8-9). Table J gives the infantile mortality in
different towns in England and Wales, and in theLondon Districts.
In the Registration Sub-Districts of Lambeth, the uncorrected
infantile mortality varies from 212.4 per 1000 births in Lambeth
Church 1st to 86.6 in Waterloo Road 2nd (the rates of 86.6 in
Waterloo Road 2nd and 141.5 in Lambeth Church 2nd being due
to the fact that these Sub-Districts contain the General Lying-in
Hospital and the Workhouse respectively), thus:—