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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The distribution of the 386 infant deaths and the infant mortality rates, both for the registration sub-districts and for the wards, is shown in the following tables:—
Registration Sub-Districts. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | Infantile Mortality per 1,000 births. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F. | TOTAL. | ||
The distribution of the 386 infant deaths and the infant mortality rates, both for the registration sub-districts and for the wards, is shawn in the following tables:-
Ward. | Births. | Infant Deaths. | Infant Mortality per 1000 births. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
M. | F. | TOTAL. | |||
1. Nine Elms | 889 | 48 | 87 | 85 | 95.6 |
2. Park | 597 | 87 | 25 | 62 | 108.9 |
8. Latchmere | 541 | 26 | 15 | 41 | 76.8 |
4. Shaftesbury | 884 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 62.5 |
5. Church | 561 | 28 | 19 | 47 | 88.8 |
6. Winstanley | 717 | 29 | 27 | 56 | 78.1 |
7. St. John | 177 | 9 | 7 | 16 | 90.4 |
8. Bolingbroke | 429 | 15 | 18 | 28 | 65.8 |
9. Broomwood | 874 | 17 | 10 | 27 | 72.2 |
The next table shows the incidence of mortality from the
chief diseases of infancy in the first and second trimesters and
the second six months of the first year of life:—