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Where conditions of ill-health are partly due to poverty and ignorance,
some improvement is frequently brought about by the efficient
help of the various charitable agencies which work in close co-operation
with the Public Health Department. The Infants' Visitors' Committees
of the Hampstead Health Society, besides their invaluable work of visiting
and befriending mothers during the first year of the life of their
infants, provide milk and oatmeal where the father is, unfortunately, out
of work. The Invalid Children's Aid Association, of whose executive
committee the lady inspector is a member, gives most efficient and kindly
aid in getting suitable cases removed to the country or seaside, and in
providing extra nourishment and clothing for delicate and ailing
children.
Mortality Among Young Children.
In the following table i.s shown the infantile mortality rate, and the
death-rate among children under five years of age. The former rate has
been calculated on the usual basis, while the latter rate has been obtained
by calculations based upon the number of deaths of children under five
years of age, and the number of children born in the year mentioned and
in the four preceding years.
Year.
Deaths of Infants under
1 year of age.
Deaths of Children under
5 years of age.
No.
Rate per
1000 births.
No.
Rate per 1000 children
born in the year and
in preceding four years.
1001 155 102 233 30·2
1902 133 88 195 25·2
1903 126 87 177 23·1
1904 181 111 226 30·0
1905 133 94 189 25·7
1906 111 77 171 23·5
1907 98 69 154 21·7
1908 97 69 122 17·3
1909 99 74 148 21·3
1910 81 60 132 19·2
1911 105 82 152 22·7
1912 79 62 131 19·8
1913 91 69 149 22·7
1914 91 72 129 20·0