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INQUESTS.

"Health visiting" is not a work which can be expected to yield results which can be
demonstrated to any large extent statistically. Only those who actually do the visiting
derive any immediate satisfaction by seeing the good progress made by the children, and that
satisfaction is lost when revisiting is not done. One measure of the success which may be
claimed for the work can be given here.
In 1906, 2,101 children were visited, of whom 100 failed to survive the first year of life.
That number is equal to an infantile mortality of 47 per 1,000. The total infantile mortality
(including 89 deaths of "hopeless ones ") was at the rate of 107 per 1,000 births (births and
deaths fully corrected).
INQUESTS.
Of the deaths registered within the Borough, 190 were registered after inquest, including
53 of non-residents. In other districts 19 deaths of residents formed the object of Coroners'
inquisitions, making a nett total of 156 deaths certified after inquests, equal to 7.7 per cent. of
all deaths, as compared with 8.6 in 1906 and an average of the same value. The findings of
the juries during the year are given in Table 31, last year's figures being compared with the
averages for the preceding five years. There were slight reductions in the numbers of deaths
from accidents, and satisfactory reductions from suicide.

The mortality rate from suicide (Table 18) was 0.06, or 0.04 below the mean for 1902-06.
The only increased rate was recorded in Maida Vale Ward (0.19, mean 0.04).