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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The infantile mortality, or the proportion of deaths under one year of age to registered
births, is an important factor in vital statistics. The deaths under one year, which in the three
preceding years had been 503, 498, and 452, respectively, were 433 in 1907 ; being equivalent to 126
per 1,000 births, and 28 below the decennial average.
The deaths under one year in the Town sub-district (385) were equivalent to 132 per 1,000
births, those in Brompton (48) to 96 per 1,000.
The infantile deaths in North Kensington, after distribution of the deaths at the Borough
Infirmary, were 346, or 141 per 1,000 births; those in South Kensington 87, or 89 per 1,000 births.

The lowest rates in the Metropolitan Boroughs were: Hampstead 69, Lewisham 90, City of
London 94, Wandsworth 99, Stoke Newington 100, and Greenwich 100; the highest rates: Finsbury
130, Holborn 131, Bethnal Green and Southwark 138, and Shoreditch 150. The rate in five
boroughs was higher, and in twenty-three boroughs lower, than in Kensington. In all the
boroughs the rates in the year 1907 were below the average in the preceding five years.
In England and Wales the rate was 118, the lowest yet recorded, and 27 per 1,000 below
the mean proportion in the ten years 1897-1906.
In the 76 great towns of England and Wales (including London) the rate averaged 127 per
1,000. The rate in Rural England was 106 per 1,000.

The infantile mortality rate in London in 1907, the Registrar-General states, was 116 per 1,000.
The average rate in the ten years 1896-1906 had been 147 per 1,000—128, 111, 205, and 143 in the
four quarters respectively; the quarterly rates in 1907 were 132, 101, 98, and 131.