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The infantile mortality rate is based on deaths occurring in any one
year, and births 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 1910-1911
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 rate amongst infants visited during the
two years, 1910 and 1911. (See note, page 13.) The infants visited are,
for the most part, in the poorest portions of the Borough.