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MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the 2,334 deaths, 446 or 19.2 per cent. were of
infants under one year of age, and the rate of infant
mortality measured by the proportion of deaths under
one year to births registered was 115 per 1,000, being
8 per 1,000 above the average of the five preceding
years. 25 of those who died under one year of age
were children of Belgian refugees and if these deaths
be deducted together with the births occurring among
the refugees, the rate of infant mortality for the year
was 110 per 1,000.
The infantile death-rate of the County of London
was 112 per 1,000 and in the metropolitan boroughs the
rates ranged from 78 in Hampstead to 145 in
Shoreditch.
105 or 23.5 per cent. of the deaths of infants under
one year of age occurred in the first seven days of life,
and 143 or 32 per cent. in the first four weeks, the
mortality rate of infants in the first month of life being
37 per 1,000.