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The death rate from zymotic disease per 1,000 of the population was .44
compared with 1.3 in the Metropolis.
The deaths from phthisis correspond to a rate of 1.36 per annum of the
population.
Infantile Mortality.
The deaths of children under one year of age to 1,000 births were 106
against 108 for the whole of London.
The Table of infantile mortality on p. 17 shows the deaths of children
under one year arranged according to monthly age periods. From this it
will be seen that no less than 50 per cent. of these deaths occurred in the
first month, 73 per cent. within the first three months, and 77 per cent. during
the first six months of existence.
The following notes from the last annual summary of the Registrar-General
(1908) may be quoted in connection with this subject:—
"It is a reasonable assumption that the fall in the rate of infantile
"mortality in London in recent years is in some measure due to the
"increasing attention the subject of the waste of infant life has received
"from all classes of the community.
It has been clearly shown that there is a direct relation between infantile
mortality and meteorological conditions—high rates corresponding to years in
which the summers were comparatively hot and dry, and low rates to years
in which the earth temperature was low and the rainfall excessive.
Deaths in City Institutions.
During 1909, 111 persons died in City Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries,
or Lunatic Asylums, or no less than 38 per cent. of the whole City mortality,
the corresponding figure for the Metropolis (1908) being 25.8 per cent.