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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1907.
Of the 4652 corrected deaths, 941 were infants under one
year of age. The total number of births is 8650, and of these
531 occurred at the Lying-in Hospital, and belong to districts
outside Lambeth Borough, 20 occurred at the Workhouse and
belong to districts outside Lambeth Borough, and 352 occurred
at the Maternity Hospital and belong to districts outside
Lambeth Borough. In this way, the corrected number of births
for Lambeth Borough is 7747. The corrected infantile mortality
(i.e., rate of corrected deaths under one year per 1000 corrected
births) is, therefore, 121"5. In calculating this infantile mortality,
it must be remembered that, whilst we substract the births that
belong to outside districts, we do not add the births of infants
of Lambethian mothers who may happen to be residing outside
the Borough at the time of such births. Taking the uncorrected
births and the corrected deaths under 1 year, the infantile
mortality rate is 108.8.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (8650), and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (1044), the
uncorrected infantile mortality is 120.2, as compared with 132.1
during 1906, and an average of 150.5 for the old Parish of Lambeth
during 10 years (1891-1900). The chief causes of theee
deaths were debility, atrophy and inanition, whooping cough,
bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory organs, diarrhoea,
premature births, and convulsions (vide p. 85 and Table V.
in the Appendix). Table J gives the infantile mortality in
different towns in England and Wales, and in the London Districts.
In the Registration Sub-Districts of Lambeth the uncorrected
infantile mortality varies from 245.7 per 1000 births in Lambeth
Church to 77.7 in Stockwell (the rates of 114.3 in Waterloo,
128.7 in Kennington, and 77.7 in Stockwell, being due to the fact
that these Sub-Districts contain the General Lying-in Hospital,
the Workhouse and the Maternity Hospital respectively),
thus:—