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INFANT MORTALITY.*
Infantile Mortality; Notification of Births Act, 1907.
Infantile Mortality.
There were 153 deaths of children under one year of age belonging
to Poplar, 174 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bromley, and
120 deaths under one year of age belonging to Bow, making a total for
the Borough of 447.† The death rates of children under one year per
1,000 births for the past 13 years being :—
Poplar.
Bromley.
Bow.
Borough of
Poplar.
County of
London.
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 107.97 117.56 112.11 112.90 105
1914 108.47 118.31 127.64 117.21 104
1915 137.78 120.98 152.15 133.98 112
1916 104.12 111.11 90.90 103.89 89
1917 94.61 97. 19 92.27 95.13 103
1918 112.87 106.20 101.09 107.39 107
1919 82.75 80.78 87.86 83.05 85
1920 83.10 75.85 90.77 8191** 75
* For Tables of Infantile Mortality, see Tables XIII, XIV, XV and XVI,
pages 37.40.
† The 447 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 101). Mortality rate among infants visited
was 69.0 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 1919. 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 two 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 „ „ „ 7807
1917 „ ,, ,, 79.2
1918 „ „ 67.9
1919 ,, ,, 69.0