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Table F.—Infantile Mortality.
Whole Borough.
Year.
St. Olave.
Bermondsey.
Rotherhithe.
London.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
Rate per
1,000
No. of
Deaths.
No. of
Deaths.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
No. of
Deaths.
No. of
Deaths.
1900
48
526
186
120
185
243
817
20,730
158
205
1901
170
497
215
176
42
132
754
169
19,412
148
1902
455
159
174
149
49
153
678
156
18,478
139
1903
428
153
179
160
50
176
657
156
16,978
130
1904
477
173
187
173
59
163
723
172
18,600
143
1905
422
146
164
145
45
170
631
147
16,324
129
1906
408
115
170
156
46
178
624
155
16,307
130
1907
335
125
114
130
22
96
501
125
14,114
116
1908
411
147
151
134
48
186
610
146
13,943
113
1909
141
12,582
396
144
143
134
34
137
573
108
435
Average for
years
1900 to 1909
152
156
131
177
44
151
657
155
16,747
341
1910
128
135
130
26
101
502
127
11,809
103
It is satisfactory to note in the above table that there is a large reduction in the infantile
mortality. Judging from the figure'for London this reduction seems to have been general, and it
will probably be found to apply to the Provinces as well. Part of this reduction is no doubt due
to the cold wet summer, for it will be remembered that any fine weather we had did not come until
September. Part is also due to the work of the Health Visitor, which was in full swing during
the year under report, but how much will be difficult to say.
As the work of the Health Visitor deals substantially with this subject, the reader is referred
to the section of this report dealing with her work.
Table G.
All Causes.
Principal
Zymotic
Diseases.
Scarlet
Fever.
Whooping
Cough.
Typhus
Fever.
Pyrexia.
(Origin
uncertain).
Diphtheria.
Enteric
Fever.
Diarrhœa.
Small-pox.
Measles.
Year.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
No.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
Rate.
No.
No.
Rate
437
.89
1900
3062
23.2
3.32
-
-
87
.66
14
.11
88
.67
.71
37
.28
117
94
-
-
-
-
1901
2719
20.8
382
2.92
14
.10
76
.58
45
.34
36
.27
56
.42
22
.16
1.0
-
-
-
-
133
1902
2756
21.2
396
3.06
31
.24
154
1.19
18
.14
29
.22
64
.49
12
.09
-
88
.68
-
-
-
1903
2382
18.4
251
1.96
50
.39
25
.19
18
.14
41
.32
4
.03
11
.09
103
-
-
-
-
.80
1904
20.1
2593
444
3.44
-
136
1.05
18
.14
17
.13
68
.53
16
.13
189
1.46
-
-
-
-
-
1905
2399
18.6
287
2.23
1
.01
59
.45
17
.13
18
.14
38
.29
9
.07
145
1.13
-
-
-
-
3.12
1906
2529
19.7
400
94
.73
30
.23
34
.27
50
.39
4
.03
188
-
-
-
-
-
1.46
-
1907
2338
18.3
223
1.74
36
7
51
.40
22
.17
52
.41
-
-
.28
-
-
.05
-
55
.43
-
1908
2444
18.8
300
2.31
-
105
.81
26
.20
26
.20
18
.14
12
.09
.87
-
-
-
-
113
-
1909
2387
18.8
368
2.89
196
.13
12
1.54
17
.09
54
.42
1
.00
2
.01
86
86
-
-
-
-
Average
for years
1900 to
1909
2561
30
19.8
349
4.6
.00
2.70
0.3
101
.78
25
.19
.23
.41
13
.10
53
5
122
.94
-
-
1910
2229
17.6
310
2.44
143
1.12
14
.34
.11
18
.14
44
4
.03
87
.68
-
-
-
-
-
-
London
1910
12.7
5559
1.14
.28
61756
1980
.41
214
.04
.09
1363
.28
196
.04
.00
1368
-
434
-
4
-
-
There has been a decrease in the deaths from these diseases, the figures being 310,
against 368 in the previous year, and 349 the average for the last ten years. This gives a zymotic
death-rate of 2.44.
The total number of deaths from notifiable diseases, viz., scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus
fever, and enteric fever, was 36, compared with 32 in 1909, and for the non-notifiable, viz., measles,
whooping cough, and diarrhcea, 274, compared with 336 in the previous year.
Measles, the deaths from which fell from 196 in 1909 to 143 in the year under report,
entirely accounts for the decrease.
It will be noticed that the mortality from enteric fever for London as a whole is - 04 and for
Berniondsey 0.3 This we may regard as very satisfactory, since enteric fever is one of those
diseases which is generally acted upon as affording some indication of the general efficiency
in Public Health administration.
Senile Mortality.
The number of deaths over 65 years of age in 1910 was 443, compared with 470 in 1909.