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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1897.
Of the 5,251 deaths, 1,425 were infants under one year of
age. giving a proportion of 151.8 (corrected) per 1,000
births, the uncorrected rate being 155.4—an increase over
last year. The chief causes of these deaths were debility,
atrophy and inanition, bronchitis and other diseases of the
respiratory organs, diarrhœa and enteritis, premature birth,
measles and whooping cough, and convulsions. Table J
gives the infantile mortality in different Towns in England
and Wales, and in the London Districts.
In the Registration Sub-Districts of Lambeth the uncorrected
infantile mortality varies from 314.9 per 1,000
births in Lambeth Church First to 118.7 in Kennington
Second (the low rate of 145 3 in Waterloo Road and 188.7
in Lambeth Church Second being explainable by the fact
that these Sub-Districts contain the General Lying-in
Hospital and the Workhouse respectively. thus:—
Total No.
of Births.
Total Deaths
under I year
(uncorrected)
Infantile
Mortality per
1000 births
(uncorrected).
Waterloo Road lst 1397 130 145.3*
,, ,, 2nd 73
Lambeth Church 1st 597 188 314.9
„ ,, 2nd 1595 301 188.7+
Kennington 1st 1859 249 133.9
2nd 1110 132 118.9
Brixton 2131 286 134.2
Norwood 699 100 143.1
Lambeth 9388 1459 155.4
N.B.— Waterloo Road 1st and 2nd have been amalgamated by the
Registrar-General and now form one District called "Waterloo
Road."
* Including the Lying-in Hospital. † Including the Workhouse.