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It will be noted in the table below that nearly half of the deaths
occurred before the infants were a month old— Of the deaths over a month
old, a third had not come under observation of the medical officers or
health visitors at the various centres, due either to the fact that the
parents were in a position to obtain skilled advice, or that the children
were born elsewhere and had recently come into Westminster, or
illegitimate children born outside Westminster and at once sent to
homes not in the City— In the last group it frequently occurs that the
child has never lived in Westminster but because the mother had been
in service here before going to some institution for her confinement, the
death is placed to the debit of the City—