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Infantile Mortality.
The total number of deaths under one year of age was 89, as
compared with 119 for the previous year. The Infantile Mortality
Rate is thus equal to 66 per 1,000 Births. The rate for the previous
year was 80, and the average for the last 10 years, 61.
The Infantile Mortality Rate for the County of London is 59
and that for the 118 large towns 67.
Of the total of 89 deaths, 37 died before attaining the age of
one month (31 being in the first week).

Of the above number, 50 were boys and 39 girls.
Deaths of Children 1 to 5 years of age.
The number of deaths of children between the ages of one and
two years was 17, and between two and five years 20. The previous
year the figures were 29 and 27 respectively.
Notification of Births Acts (1907 and 1915.)
All live births and all still births after 28th week of pregnancy
must be notified within 36 hours. Early knowledge enables the Health
Visitors to begin early visiting. Still-births must be certified either by
the Doctor or by the Midwife or by declaration on a prescribed form,
if no doctor or midwife was present. In these latter cases the Minister
of Health requires the Medical Officer of Health to submit a special
report in order that he may be satisfied that the child was really stillborn.