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Fulham 1914

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. Deaths under one year per 1,000 Births.

Ward.1904190519061907190819091910191119121913Average Ten Years 1904-19131914
Barons Court18110888146917512270148108114108
Lillie1371471371511061221031288596121100
Walham18518316618415214015612491117148168
Margravine179153171136129133135154112102141136
Munster1401371421161201021031379191118106
Hurlingham15998150998176435959829182
Sands End1561681271071369410913897102124114
Town12110572646498815176607979
The Borough1521441331221151081071289496120113