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Deaths under One Year from All Causes per 1,000 Births.
The table continues to show very diverse results, but one thing
it does not indicate, and that is the continuous decrease of mortality
which one would expect in the selected Boroughs, according to the
statements and arguments of those who would insist that the first
thing to do in order to diminish infantile mortality is to appoint a
health visitor, unless the reasoning be accepted that, like many other
much-belauded schemes, it is not going to show any effect for some
years.
The decrease in this Borough is found chiefly in the two diseases
to which one may fairly have attributed the increase in 1913.
Bronchitis and pneumonia together were then responsible for 167;
last year they carried off but 135; and it is in this age division that
the fall for the year is noticeable. The decrease in diarrhæa and
enteritis amounted to 29. Apart from these two, there was also a
decrease in the mortality from the infectious class, but otherwise
the figures show no very great difference from 1913. For instance,
there was a fall in the number of fatalities from measles, the figures
being 9 in 1914, 16 in 1913, and 21 in 1912. One death, however,
occurred from scarlet fever last year, while in 1913 there were none
attributed to this cause. Whooping cough caused one more death
than in 1913.
Tuberculous disease, in all its manifestations, showed an increase
of 5, i.e., from 17 to 22.
The figures of injury at birth, congenital defects, and premature
birth are individually and in the aggregate practically identical
with the past year. Four deaths less was the difference for 1914
over 1913 in the case of wasting diseases. Of the 6,580 registered,
there were 5,680 notified; of these, 2,924 were received from
midwives and 295 from nurses. It seems, therefore, that the
number of women who are not attended in their confinements
by medical men shows no sign of diminution.
The subject of making provision for expectant mothers has
also received attention, both from the point of view of the reduction
of infantile mortality, and also on the aspect connected with the
1906
1907
1906
1909
1905
1906
1909
85
104
94
80
94
137
125
79
102
112
73
103
118
132
73
86
91
62
90
96
111
97
123
132
78
146
151
156
85
94
106
60
99
123
126
82
109
113
75
120
129
138
94
104
119
69
120
132
144
112
120
128
69
117
138
123
109
131
132
77
138
155
153
Woolwich
Lambeth
Kensington
Hampstead
Hammersmith
Bethnal Green
Bermondsey
Camberwell
130
115
104
100
94
109
83
106
99
Year in
which
Health
Visitor was
appointed.
1914.
1913.
1912.
1911.
1910.
1909.
1908.
1907.
1906.
Borough.