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I am sure this state of things will be gratifying not only
to myself but to the Public Health and Maternity and Child
Welfare Committees, and the Council generally, and I am strongly
of opinion that this great achievement has really been accomplished
through the careful attention and painstaking work
during the last few years of the staff of the Maternity and
Child Welfare Department, and has been particularly aided by
the sympathetic treatment which has been meted out by the
members of the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee to all
applicants for assistance in the way of milk and special foods
for children recommended therefor, and it seems to me that it
would be quite worth while for this Council to be willing to
pay the whole of the cost of the special milk supply for the
children should the Ministry of Health decline to assist in that
matter, so that our high position in this respeot may not only
be maintained, but if possible improved upon.
The Birth Rate is 16.27 per 1,000, and is the lowest
ever recorded. Last year the Birth Rate was 17.75 and the
average for the last 10 years 20.06. The Birth Rate for the
County of London is 16.1 and 16.7 for all England and Wales.
The Infant Mortality Rate for the Borough, measured by the
number of deaths under one year to 1,000 births registered is 53
compared with 61 last year. The rates in the various Metropolitan
Boroughs varied from 38 in Holborn, 43 in Woolwich,
45 in Lewisham, 49 in Hampstead, 51 in Finsbury and Wandsworth.
52 in Camberwell, up to 66 in Stepney, 67 in the
City of Westminster and Fulham, 73 in Shoreditch, 74 in
Chelsea. 78 in Paddington and 96 in the City of London. The
rate foi England and Wales is 69. and for the County of
London 59.
The Zymotic Death Rate of .36 per 1,000 is slightly lower
than last year's figure of .40.