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necessary to the scheme for the supply of milk. This scheme provided
that milk at less than cost price may be supplied in necessitous cases only
to (a.) nursing mothers who are actually suckling their children; (6.)
expectant mothers in the last 3 months of pregnancy; and (c.) children
up to 3 years of age only, instead of up to 5 years. Children between
3 and 5 might be supplied on medical certificates. The quantity of
milk supplied was reduced to one pint per day per person, but infants
between 3 and 18 months might receive 1½ pints daily on production of
medical certificates.
Deaths and Death-Rate.
There were 862 deaths of Chelsea residents in 1921, as compared
with 773 in 1920. The death-rate for the year was 13.5 per 1,000,
as against 12.1 in 1920. In London the death-rate for 1921 was 12.4.
Birth and Death-Rates of Special Classes.
Chelsea Borough.
Year.
Birthrate.
Deathrate.
Zymotic
Deathrate.
Tubercular
Deathrate.
Deaths
under one
year to
1000 Births.
1921
16.6
13.5
0.5
1.1
78
Industrial Dwellings.
1921
16.4
11.1
0.9
1.2
81
Poor-Class Streets.
1921
23.3
15.8
0.6
1.2
99
The Borough Council Dwellings are Sir Thomas More Buildings,
Pond House, Onslow Dwellings, and Grove Buildings, with a total population
of 1,467. The other Industrial Dwellings are the Marlborough
Buildings, Guinness Buildings, Peabody Buildings, Chelsea Park Dwellings,
Sutton Trust Dwellings and Lewis Trust Dwellings, with a total population
of 5,300. The seven poor-class streets are Dartrey-road, Francisstreet,
Gilray-square, Ives-street, Riley-street, Slaidburn-street, World's
End-passage and courts adjacent, with a total population of 3,480.
Infantile Mortality Rates and Deaths, One to Five Years.
The following table shows the average Infantile Mortality Rates
in 4-yearly periods in Chelsea since 1901, and the average number of
annual deaths in these periods of children one to five years of age; also
similar figures for the year 1921 :—
Years.
Infantile Mortality Rate.
Deaths, 1-5 years.
1901-4 140 112
1905-8 119 88
1909-12 97 71
1913-16 87 56
1917-20 78 47
1921 78 18