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11
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During the year 1931 there were 2,075 births, and 182 deaths of children under the age of
twelve months in the Borough. These figures give an infantile mortality rate (deaths of
infants under 12 months to each 1,000 births) of 87.
The following table gives the births and the infantile deaths and death-rates for the year
1931 in England and Wales, in London, in the Borough and the various wards of the
Borough. The infantile mortality rates for 1926 to 1930 are given for comparison.
1931
Infantile Mortality Rates.
No. of
Births.
No. of
Deaths of
Children
under
1 year.
Infantile
Mortality
Rates.
1930
1929
1928
1927
1926
England and Wales 632,580 41,648 66 60 74 65 69 70
London 65,684 4,270 65 59 70 67 59 64
Paddington 2,075 182 87 78 101 85 79 86
Wards—
Queen's Park 145 8 55 43 44 28 91 45
Harrow Road 410 32 78 39 71 79 49 104
Maida Vale 318 26 81 97 66 82 96 87
Town 132 14 106 50 147 95 130 37
Church 405 47 116 122 164 99 99 108
Westbourne 412 33 80 86 126 109 76 86
Lancaster Gate, West 55 6 109 98 39 83 51 109
Lancaster Gate, East 66 4 60 103 42 82 — 115
Hyde Park 132 12 90 62 98 57 65 53