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90
T gives also the deaths from the chief Infantile Diseases,
expressed in terms of the Infantile population (or number
of Births). Allowing for the slight differences between the
corrected and uncorrected death returns, it will be noted
that, in regard to both infantile and other diseases, Lambeth
again compares favourably with London (vide Table U).
Allowing for the favourable meteorological conditions
during 1908, favourable in so far as infantile life was concerned,
the statistics for Lambeth Borough throughout the
year 1908 are satisfactory—the corrected infantile mortality
rate, as a whole, being 93. per 1000 births, i.e., taking the
corrected number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age,
and the corrected number of births registered. Comparing
the Lambeth statistics with those for the large Provincial
Towns or the separate Metropolitan Districts, the Lambeth
Borough Council is to be congratulated upon the extraordinary
low rate of infantile mortality—the lowest on record either
for the new Borough or the old Parish. In this connection
the influence of the precautionary measures that are being
taken in Lambeth Borough must be remembered, e.g., the
systematic visiting of houses wherein births and deaths of infants
under 1 year of age have been registered, the influence
of the milk dep6t, the distribution of pamphlets dealing
with the proper feeding and management of infants, etc.,
and the special work done by the Council's newly-appointed
Health Visitor.