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The Roval College of St. Katharine—Death of Miss MacQueen.
The College, under Miss MacQueen's direction, had carried out
a large amount of valuable and successful work under the Maternity and
Child.Welfare Scheme since its inception, and the Public Health and
Housing Committee felt that the Council would desire to record its
high appreciation of Miss MacQueen's services to the Borough and its
sense of the great loss sustained by her death and recommended the
* For Tables of Infantile Mortality, see Tables XIV'., XV., XV'I. and XVII., pages
47.50.
t The 352 deaths of infants under one year of age include deaths in outlying institutions
and allow for deductions of non.residents.
** See Health Visitor's Report (page 171). Mortality rate among infants visited
was 78 07 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 1916. In 1910 and 1911 the rates
were 105.69 and 115.62, because diarrhoea was prevalent in 1911.
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 1910.11
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 "t.vo years 1910 and 1911.
1908 .. .. Mortality rates amongst infants visited .. 104.19
1909 .... „ „ „ .. 98.75
1910 .... „ „ „ .. 105.69
1911 .... ,. „ „ .. 115.62
1912 .... „ „ „ .. 90.10
1913 .... „ „ „ .. 83.20
1914 .... „ „ ., .. 117.00
1915 .... „ „ ,. .. 98.20
1916 .... ,. „ ., ..78 07