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Inquests.
12. There were 135 inquests held in the Borough compared
with 146, 180, 181, 131 and 112, in the preceding five years.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
13. The deaths under one year were 235, as compared with
268 in 1918. The infantile mortality rate (deaths under one
year per 1000 births) was 86.
The Infantile Mortality rate for London was 85; for
England and Wales it was 89. In Lewisham the rate was 60, in
Stoke Newington 64, in Wandsworth 72, in Battersea 73, in
Stepney 79, in Chelsea 80, in Hampstead 81, in Camberwell and
Hackney 82, in Fulham and Poplar 83, in Bethnal Green 84, and
in Deptford and Lambeth, 85. From the figures in the preceding
sentence and from the note after table 5, it will be seen
that, although in the general death-rate Woolwich had the
fifth lowest rate, in the infantile death-rate it is bracketed for the
fourteenth place with two other Boroughs.
The following table, No. 12, gives the infantile mortality rate
in each registration district of the Borough in quinquennial
periods and during the last four years: