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In considering the above and subsequent tables it must be remembered that the deaths of
infants at any temporary address (institution or private house) to which the mother went for her
confinement, and deaths of infants in institutions to which they were transferred for treatment
from the place of birth, are allocated to the district of the usual residence of the mother.

From the above table, it will be seen that in England and Wales, in London and in Kensington,
there has been a steady improvement taking place in recent years, but that improvement has
during the past few years been much more noticeable in Kensington than in England and Wales
or London, with the result that the Kensington rate is gradually comparing more and more
favourably with the rates for other districts. Indeed, it will be seen that with the exception of
the period 1911 to 1915, when the Kensington rate was the same as that for London, and the year
1924, when the Kensington rate was equal to that for England and Wales, there has never been a
period when the Kensington figure has not been worse than that for England and Wales and for
London until 1926, when the rate for Kensington was four below that for London and ten below
that for England and Wales.
The great improvement in the infant death rate of recent years is most encouraging, and it
is to be hoped that it will stimulate both voluntary and official workers to press forward with renewed
enthusiasm in a campaign which has been associated with such marked success.