Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1914
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Mortality at Different Ages.
Infantile Mortality
Of the 2,132 deaths, 469 or 22 per cent were of
infants under one year of age, and the rate of the
infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths
under one year to births registered was 113 per 1,000,
being 17 per 1,000 above that of 1913.
The corresponding rate of the County of London was
104 per 1,000 and of the 29 metropolitan boroughs only
7 had higher rates than Fulham.
99 infants, or one out of every 42 born in 1914,
died in the first week of life.
Table VII. gives the infantile death-rates of the
several wards of the borough in 1914 and the preceding
ten years.
TABLE VII.
Ward. | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | Average Ten Years 1904-1913 | 1914 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barons Court | 181 | 108 | 88 | 146 | 91 | 75 | 122 | 70 | 148 | 108 | 114 | 108 |
Lillie | 137 | 147 | 137 | 151 | 106 | 122 | 103 | 128 | 85 | 96 | 121 | 100 |
Walham | 185 | 183 | 166 | 184 | 152 | 140 | 156 | 124 | 91 | 117 | 148 | 168 |
Margravine | 179 | 153 | 171 | 136 | 129 | 133 | 135 | 154 | 112 | 102 | 141 | 136 |
Munster | 140 | 137 | 142 | 116 | 120 | 102 | 103 | 137 | 91 | 91 | 118 | 106 |
Hurlingham | 159 | 98 | 150 | 99 | 81 | 76 | 43 | 59 | 59 | 82 | 91 | 82 |
Sands End | 156 | 168 | 127 | 107 | 136 | 94 | 109 | 138 | 97 | 102 | 124 | 114 |
Town | 121 | 105 | 72 | 64 | 64 | 98 | 81 | 51 | 76 | 60 | 79 | 79 |
The Borough | 152 | 144 | 133 | 122 | 115 | 108 | 107 | 128 | 94 | 96 | 120 | 113 |