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44 infantile mortality.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Among the deaths registered within the Borough during the past year were 441 of
infants under one year of age, equivalent to a rate of 139 per 1,000 births registered. Last
year's total was 86 below the annual average for the 10 years 1895-1904, and lower than the
total for any of those years except that of 1903, when 425 deaths were registered. The
mortality rate was 14 below the decennial mean (153), and is the lowest recorded in the
eleven years 1895-1905, except that of 1903, when the rate was 128. (See Table I., Appendix.)
After correction for non-resident and outlying deaths, a total of 391 is obtained for the
past year, 114 less than the decennial average (505) and 58 less than the total for 1904. In
1903 only was the corrected total (388) less than that of last year. To St. Mary's
Sub-District 300 deaths belonged, 81 less than the average (381), and the lowest figure for
the eleven years 1895-1905; to St. John's Sub-District 39, 8 below the average (47); and to
North-West Paddington 52, 25 less than the average (77). (See Table II., Appendix.)
The nett mortality for the whole Borough, per 1,000 births registered within the Borough,
was 122 last year, 14 less than the rate for 1904. In the three Sub-Districts the rates last
year were—St. Mary, 125 (132 in 1904); St. John, 100 (113 in 1904); and North-West
Paddington, 126 (180 in 1904). A full comparison with the mean rates (persons) is given
below:—

In St. Mary's Sub-District the rate for 1903 (119) is the only one below that for last year.
In St. John's, lower rates were recorded in 1893 and 1894 (97 each year), in 1899 (93) and in
1902 (82). In 1903 the rate was 104. In North-West Paddington lower rates were recorded
in 1894 (120) and 1903 (98). In the two first Sub-Districts sex rates are on record back to
1892. The rate for males last year was 125 in St. Mary (the lowest on record) and 130 in
St. John (lower rates have been recorded in this District on several occasions). The rate for
females was 125 in St. Mary (lower rates have been recorded four times since 1892) and 65
in St. John (the lowest on record except that for 1902, 49). Sex rates in North-West
Paddington have been recorded since 1901 only. Last year's rate for males was 168 (that for
1903, 106, being the only one below the figure for last year) and for females 81 (the lowest
on record).
In Table 12 will be found the infantile mortality rates for the Adjacent Boroughs for
1905 and the mean rates for 1901-04. The rates for Kensington (144 in 1905, mean 151) are
the highest of the series, and those for Hampstead (94 in 1905. 97 mean) the lowest. All the
rates for last year were below the means for the preceding 4 years.
It is possible for the first time to give the infantile mortalities for the Wards of the
Borough (Table 30). In calculating these a difference has been made from the rule followed