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twenty-nine Metropolitan Boroughs. There are 17 Boroughs with
a higher general death-rate and only 8 of the 29 Boroughs have a
lower death-rate than Battersea. 15 Boroughs have a higher zymotic
death-rate and 15 a higher infantile-mortality rate. Taking the
ten south Metropolitan Boroughs, Lewisham has the lowest general
death-rate (11.3) and Bermondsey and Southwark the highest
(each 18·4): Only three of the ten Southern Boroughs have a lower
death-rate than Battersea.
London as a whole has a birth-rate of 24·8, a corrected zymotic
(death) rate of 2·2 per 1,000 and an infantile mortality (corrected)
rate of 129 per 1,000 births. For England and Wales the figures are
Birth-rate 24·4, death-rate 14·6, infantile mortality 141, per 1,000
births.