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INFANT MORTALITY. *
Infantile Mortality;
Notification of Births Act, 1907 ;
National Conference on Infantile Mortality.
Infantile Mortality.
There were 199 deaths of children under one year of age belonging to
Poplar, 253 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bromley, and
136 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bow, making a total for the
Borough of 588. f The death rates of children under one year per 1,000
births for the past 20 years being :—
Poplar.
Bromley.
Bow.
Borough of
Poplar.
County of
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 119.59 103.83 101.07 108.40 90
1913 07.97 17.56 112.11 112.90** 105‡
* For Tables of Infantile Mortality, see Tables XIV., XV., XVI. and XVII., pages
76.78.
The 588 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 499—148 Poplar, 249 Bromley
and 102 Bow.
** See Health Visitor's Report (page 258). Mortality rate among infants visited
was 90.10 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 1912. In 1911 the rate was 115.62,
a year when diarrhoea was prevalent.
It will be seen that the rate for 1912 was even lower.
J In the County of London during the year 1913 there were 112,637 children born,
of whom 11,869 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.