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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
During the year 1938 there were 1,888 births, and 125 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 live births) of 66.
The following table gives the births and the infantile deaths and death-rates for the year 1938
in England and Wales, in London, in the Borough and in the various wards of the Borough. The
infantile mortality rates for 1933 to 1937 are given for comparison.
1938.
Infantile Mortality Rates.
No.
of
Births.
No. of
Deaths of
Children
under
1 year.
Infantile
Mortality
Rates.
1937 1936 1935 1934 1933
England and Wales 621,603 32,473 53 58 59 57 59 64
London 64,325 3,746 57 60 66 68 67 60
Paddington 1,888 125 66 66 72 71 95 85
Wards—
Queen's Park 129 7 54 69 79 37 31 96
Harrow Road 454 35 77 55 53 74 79 48
Maida Vale 294 14 48 69 69 71 93 94
Town 107 5 47 101 103 107 72 123
Westbourne 458 35 76 45 71 73 109 87
Church 227 17 75 103 107 83 169 112
Lancaster Gate, West 54 3 56 69 29 18 91 127
Lancaster Gate, East 54 2 37 91 75 48 — 62
Hyde Park 111 7 63 41 42 57 96 67