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Bethnal Green 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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60.3 per 1,000 births. The infant death rate for London
was 59 and for England and Wales as a whole 60.
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 |
| 1928 | 73.9 |
| 1929 | 64.4 |
According to the Registrar General's information
111 of the deaths were those of legitimate infants and
7 those of illegitimate infants. Accordingly we have
the following figures for Infantile Mortality:—
Infantile Mortality (legitimate) 58.0
do. do. (illegitimate) 166.6
do. do. (all infants) 60.3
Deaths from Pneumonia were fewer than in the
previous year, although there wore more deaths from
Measles. Considering the unfavourable environing circumstances
for children in the Borough, the Infant
Death Rate, which is the second lowest ever recorded
in Bethnal Green, is very satisfactory.