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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Notification of Births Act, 1907.
Conference of Medical Officers of Health at the Home Office.
Health Visitor. Proposed Milk Depôts.
There were 214 deaths of children under one year of age belonging
to Poplar, 287 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bromley, and
152 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bow, making a total for the
Borough of 653.† The death rates of children under one year per 1,000
births for the past 14 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
1906 157 152 148 153 131
1907 116.49 134.11 119.49 124.40 116
* For Tables of Infantile Mortality, see Tables XIII., XIV., XV. and XVI*
pages 41, 4?, 43 and 44.
† The 653 deaths of infants under one year of ago include deaths in outlying institutions
and allow for deductions of non-residents.
The actual deaths inside the Borough without deducting non-residents and not
including deaths occurring in outlying institutions were 603—179 Poplar, 297 Bromley
and 127 Bow.