Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Infant Mortality.
During 1919 the deaths of 386 infants were registered as
belonging to Battersea. The total number of births registered
during the year was 4,669, giving an infant mortality rate of
82.7. A lower rate has only once been recorded, viz. in 1919,
when the rate was 74T per 1,000 births.
Year. | London. | Battersea. |
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The infant mortality rate for the County of London was
74.9 per .1,000 births, which is lower than has hitherto been
recorded. The lowest rate previously recorded was 85 per
1,000 births in 1919.