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infantile mortality.*
Conference on the Prevention of Infantile Mortality
Municipal Cheches:
Milk Depots (London) Bill.
There were 274 deaths of children under one year of age,
belonging to Poplar, 367 deaths under one year of age, belonging
to Bromley, and 191 deaths under one year of age belonging
to Bow, making a total for the Borough of 832. The death rates
of children under one year-per 1000 births for the past 12 years
being:—
Borough of County of
Poplar. Bromley. Bow. Poplar. London.
1894 152 152 158 — —
1895 190 184 177— —
1896 177 168 184 — —
1897 172 164 181 — —
1898 172 198 216 — —
1899 183 174 177 — —
1900 182 179 234 — —
1901 156 167 174 165 148
1902 162 152 141 153 141
1903 140 178 125 152 131
1904 141 158 159 152 146
1905 148 161 143 152 131
Conference on the Prevention of Infantile Mortality.
A Conference on the Prevention of Infantile Mortality, and the
"Welfare of Nursing Mothers and Suckling Infants, was held at
the Town Hall, Pancras Road, N.W., on Monday, the 5th day of
June, 1905.
* For Tables of Infantile Mortality, see Tables XIII., XIV., XV. and XVI.,
pages 39-42.