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** See Health Visitor's Report (page 279). Mortality rate among infants visited
was 83.20 per 1,000. The infants visited are for the most part in the poorest portions
of the Borough, and the rate refers to those born in 1913. In 1910 and 1911 the rates
were 105.69 and 115.62, because diarrhoea was prevalent in 1911.
‡ In the County of London during the year 1914 there were 109,667 children born,
of whom 11,395 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. The rate for the County of London
was even lower in 1912 being only 90 per 1,000 births.
The infantile mortality rate is based on deaths occurring in any one year and birth
occurring in that and the preceding year. The rate of mortality amongst infants visited
by Health Visitors is calculated upon births occurring in one particular year and deaths
in that and the following year. The children born in 1910 and dying during 1910-11
are shown in the rate for 1910, so that the diarrhoea months June, July, August and
September of 1911 affected not only the children born in 1911 but also those born in
1910 who had not yet reached one year of age, hence the higher rates amongst infants
visited during the two years 1910 and 1911.
1908 Mortality rates amongst infants visited 10419
1909 „ „ „ 98.75
1910 „ „ „ 105.69
1911 „ „ „ 115.62
1912 „ „ „ 90.10
1913 „ „ „ 83.20
(See Chart, page 14)