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Infantile Mortality.
The figure for this is 139 deaths under one year to every 1,000
births.
Table A.— Infantile Mortality.
Whole Borough.
London.
Year.
No. of
Deaths.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
Rate per
1,000
Births.
No. of
Deaths.
1908
610
146
13,943
113
1909
573
141
12,582
108
502
127
1910
11,809
103
159
1911
611
129
14.440
1912
433
114
10,056
91
11,869
105
1913
505
131
487
1914
129
11,395
104
1915
537
154
11,369
104
1916
364
108
8,819
88
1917
335
125
8,273
103
Average for years
1908-1917.
496
11,456
105
133
322
139
7,965
107
1918
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
There has been a slight increase in the deaths from these
diseases, the figures being 229 against 218 in the previous year,
and 290 the average for the last ten years. This gives a- zymotic
death-rate of 2.11.
The total number of deaths from notifiable diseases, viz.,
measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus fever and enteric fever,
was 97, compared with 97 in 1917, and for the non-notifiable,
viz., whooping cough and diarrhoea, 132, compared with 121 in
the previous year.
Measles.
There were 71 deaths due to this disease, which is 28 below
the average for the last ten years, and 1 below the number for
1917.