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Infantile Mortality
Ninety-eight children, 83 legitimate and 15 illegitimate,
died in the first year of life compared with 83 in 1956 giving an
infantile mortality rate of 23.30 per 1,000 live births.
The rate for the Borough of Lambeth is slightly higher than
that for the County of London which is 21 per 1,000 live births
but approximates to that of England and Wales which is 23.1.
Of the 98 children who died, 72 died before reaching the age
of 4 weeks giving a neo-natal mortality rate of 17.36 per 1,000
live births compared with 16.3 for the County of London and 16.5
for England and Wales.
Maternal Mortality
For the second time in the history of the Borough, no mother
died as a result of childbirth.
The other occasion on which this occurred was in 1949 although
in that year there were fewer total births.
Deaths from Cancer of the Lung and Bronchus
In 1950 the Registrar-General added to the list of causes of
death "Cancer of the lung and bronchus Prior to 1950 these
deaths were included in" Cancer of all other sites
Since that date 876 deaths from lung cancer have occurred in
the Borough of Lambeth.
Over the same period the number of deaths from respiratory
tuberculosis was 395.
An increase in the number of deaths from cancer of the lung
and bronchus and a diminution in the number of deaths from
respiratory tuberculosis has been a feature of the RegistrarGeneral'
s statistics for England and Wales during the last few
years and it is of interest to note that here in Lambeth the graph
shows a similar trend.