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INFANTILE MORTALITY.*
Infantile Mortality ;
Notification of Births Act, 1907 ;
Total Number of Births Notified 1909-1912;
National Conference on Infantile Mortality.
Infantile Mortality.
There were 199 deaths of children under one year of age belonging to
Poplar, 222 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bromley, and
122 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bow, making a total for the
Borough of 543.† The death rates of children under one year per 1,000
births for the past 19 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
1908 118.49 126.50 119.36 123.83 113
1909 128.92 132.86 128.32 130.40 108
1910 114.79 119.81 125.31 119.38 103
1911 157.02 158.02 161.42 158.50 129
1912 19.59 103.83 101.07 108.40** 90‡
* For Tables of Infantile Mortality, see Tables XIV, XV, XVI and XVII, pages 61,
62, 63 and 04.
† The 543 deaths of infants under one year of age 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 484—159 Poplar, 231 Bromley
and 94 Bow.
** See Health Visitor's Report (page 247). Mortality rate among infants visited
was 115.62 per 1000. The infants visited are for the most part in the poorest portions
of the Borough, and the rate refers to those born in 1911, a year when diarrhoea was
prevalent.
‡ In the County of London during the year 1912 there were 111,512 children born,
of whom 10,056 died under one year of age. " The rate in 1910 was only 103 per 1,000
births. This is the lowest London rate recorded, and is 29 per 1,000 below the average
in the preceding 10 years."—Registrar-General.