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11
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During the year 1933 there were 1,903 births, and 163 deaths of children under the age of twelve
months in the Borough. These figures give an infantile mortality rate (deaths of infants under twelve
months to each 1,000 births) of 85.
The following table gives the births and the infantile deaths and death-rates for the year 193.3
in England and Wales, in London, in the Borough and the various wards of the Borough. The
infantile mortality rates for 1928 to 1932 are given for comparison.
1933
Infantile Mortality Rates.
No.
of
Births.
No. of
Deaths of
Children
under
1 year.
Infantile
Mortality
Rates.
1932 1931 1930 1929 1928
England and Wales 580,850 36,760 64 64 66 60 74 65
London 56,743 3,377 60 66 65 59 70 67
Paddington 1,903 163 85 107 87 78 101 85
Ward«—
Queen's Park 146 14 96 125 55 43 44 28
Harrow Road 435 21 48 80 78 39 71 79
Maida Vale 277 26 94 84 81 97 66 82
Town 122 15 123 161 106 50 147 95
Westbourne 389 34 87 107 80 86 126 109
Church 312 35 112 138 116 122 164 99
Lancaster Gate, West 55 7 127 113 109 98 39 83
Lancaster Gate, East 48 3 62 97 60 103 42 82
Hyde Park 119 8 67 79 90 62 98 57