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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The births and deaths of infants belonging to six special insulce within the Borough have
been taken out, and are compared with the corresponding rates for 1905 in Table 25. The
decreases noted in five of the six rates were quite unexpected. Attention may be directed to
the very low rate for " Oueen's Park " (89 last year, 134 in 1905), and to the excessive
rate for 44 Hall Park " (221 last year, 196 in 1905).

"all Park" "North Wharf," and "Clarendon Street," are in Church Ward. If the
births and deaths belonging to those insulœ be deducted, the infantile mortality for the
remainder of the \\ ard works out at 87 as compared with 146 for the whole Ward. Similarly
by deducting 44 Alfred Road " from Westbourne Ward, 44Amberley Road " from Maida Yale,
and "Oueen's Park " from Oueen's Park, rates of 125, 98, and 176 are obtained, as compared
with 121, 107, and 92 for the respective Wards. (See below).
Ward.
Rate for
whole Ward.
Deducting—
Rate for
remainder of Ward.
Church 146
"Hall Park"
"North Wharf "
"Clarendon Street "
87
Westbourne 121 "Alfred Road " 125
Maida Vale 107 "Amberley Road" 98
Oueen s Park 92 "Queen s Park 176
%
In Table VI., Appendix, the deaths at ages under one year have been distributed
according to sex and age of the deceased and the cause of death. To that Table have been
added the averages of the numbers of deaths at the different ages and from the different
causes, thus contrasting the records for last year with those for the five years 1901-05. In
comparison with the annual average total number of deaths (423), last year's total (353)
shows a saving of 70 lives, that is seventy more infants survived their first birthday. The
births registered within the Borough last year (3,152) were 137 fewer than the average
annual number for 1901-05, viz. 3,289 a fact which lends greater importance to the reduction
in the number of deaths.