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During the year 276 children under the age of 5
were nursed, a total of 2,480 visits being made, but
owing to the restricted character of the Government
grant for nursing assistance, only 857 of these visits
ranked for grant.
Forty-three mothers received 557 visits for nursing
in connection with conditions incidental to child-bearing,
grant being payable in respect of this expenditure.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
One hundred and fifty - eight deaths of Bethnal
Green infants under one year of age are reported by
the Registrar-General as having taken place during the
year. This is equal to a rate of infantile mortality of
73.9 per 1,000 births. The infant death rate for London
was 67 and for England and Wales as a whole 65.
Comparison with previous years is as follows:—
1916 ' 106.0
1917 112.0
1918 129.0
1919 85.0
1920 95.0
1921 98.2
1922 90.2
1923 68.7
1924 78.0 .
1925 80.6
1926 71.1
1927 57.7
The Registrar-General reports that 147 of the
deaths were those of legitimate infants and 11 those of
illegitimate infants. Accordingly we have the following
figures for Infantile Mortality:—
Infantile Mortality (legitimate) 70.7
do. do. (illegitimate) 186.4
do. do. (all infants) 73.9