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The fall in prematures from 63 to 41 and in atrophy from
75 to 57 gives much more cause to congratulation since such a
drop can very well be attributed to improved hygiene measures
in their broadest sense.
Table A. -Infantile Mortality.
Whole Borough
London.
Year.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
No. of
Deaths.
1906
624
155
16,307
130
1907
501
125
14,114
116
610
13,943
1908
146
113
1909
573
141
12,582
108
1910
502
127
11,809
103
1911
611
159
14,440
129
1912
433
114
10,056
91
1913
505
131
11,869
105
1914
129
11,395
104
487
1915
537
154
11,369
104
138
Average for years}
1906-1915.}
538
12,788
110
364
108
8,819
1916
88
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
There has been a decrease in the deaths from these diseases,
the figures being 155, against 367 in the previous year, and 315
the average for the last ten years. This gives a zymotic deathrate
of 1.36.
The total number of deaths from notifiable diseases, viz.,
measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus fever and enteric fever,
was 78, compared with 32 in 1915, and for the non-notifiable,
viz., whooping cough and diarrhœa, 77 compared with 335 in the
previous year.
Small-pox.
There were no deaths from this cause in 1916.