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total uncorrected deaths of infants under I year of age, the infantile
mortality rate is 58.15, as compared with annual average rates (uncorrected
of 150 5, 123.8and 97.5 for the decennia 1891-1900 (Parish),
1901-10 (Borough) and 1911-20 ^Borough), and an annual average
rate (uncorrected) of 69.8 for the previous quinquennium 1921-25
(Borough) : whereas, if the corrected deaths of infants under 1 year
are used, viz.: 288, the infantile mortality rate is 38.4, as compared with
yearly average rates (corrected) of 146.1, 115.3 and 77.2 for the
same decennia, and an average rate (corrected) of 50.5 for the
previous quinquennium 1921.25 (Borough) respectively.
The chief causes of these deaths under 1 year of age are debility,
atrophy and inanition, congenital malformations, measles, whooping
cough, syphilis, bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory organs,
diarrhoea and prematurity.
In whatever way the infantile mortality rate is expressed
statistically, it shows a remarkable decline during recent years as
compared with the previous decennia 1911-20, 1901-10 and 1891-1900,
and the previous quinquennium 1921-25.

Inner Districts—57.2, Outer Districts—59 3.
N.B.— For the purposes of calculating infantile mortality rates in
this table, the births and deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub.district
are divided equally between the Inner and Outer Districts.