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During the year 330 children under the age of 5
were nursed, a total of 2,878 visits being made, but
owing to the restricted character of the Government
grant for nursing assistance, only 1,014 of these visits
ranked for grant.
Sixty mothers received 773 visits for nursing in
connection with conditions incidental to child-bearing,
grant being payable in respect of this expenditure.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
One hundred and thirty-six* deaths of Bethnal
Green infants under one year of age are reported by
the Registrar General as having taken place during
the year. This is equal to a rate of infantile mortality
of 57.7 per 1,000 births, the lowest rate ever
recorded in the Borough. The infant death rate for
London was 59 and for Englahd and Wales as a whole
69.
*According to local returns, 135, which does not, however,
materially affect the rate.