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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1908.
Of the 4341 corrected deaths, 829 were infants under one
year of age. The total number of births is 8906, and of
these 610 occurred at the Lying-in Hospital, and belong to
districts outside Lambeth Borough, 15 occurred at the
Workhouse and belong to districts outside Lambeth
Borough, and 338 occurred at the Maternity Hospital and
belong to districts outside Lambeth Borough. In this way, the
corrected number of births for Lambeth Borough is 7943. The
corrected infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected deaths
under one year per 1000 corrected births) is, therefore, 104.3.
In calculating this infantile mortality, it must be remembered
that, whilst we subtract 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 93.1.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (8906) and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (950), the
uncorrected infantile mortality is 106.7, as compared with
120.2 during 1907, and an average of 150.5 for the old
Parish of Lambeth during 10 years (1891-1900). The chief
causes of these deaths were debility, atrophy and inanition,
whooping cough, bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory
organs, diarrhoea, premature births, and convulsions
(vide p. 92 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 225.5 per 1000 births
in Lambeth Church to 70.8 in Stockwell (the low rates of
87.4 in Waterloo, 112.4 in Kennington, and 70.8 in Stockwell,
being due to the fact that these Sub-Districts contain