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Allowing for the favourable meteorological conditions
during 1910, specially favourable in so far as infantile life
was concerned, the statistics for Lambeth Borough
throughout the year 1910 are satisfactory—the corrected infantile
mortality rate, as a whole, being 82 per 1000 births,
i.e., taking the corrected number of deaths of infants under
1 year of age, and the uncorrected number of births registered.
Comparing the Lambeth statistics with those
for the large Provincial Towns or the separate Metropolitan
Districts, the Lambeth Borough is to be congratulated
upon the extraordinary low rate of infantile mortality. In
this connection, the influence of the precautionary measures
that are being taken in Lambeth 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 milk depot, the distribution of pamphlets dealing with
the proper feeding and management of infants, etc., and
the special work done by the Council's Health Visitor, and
the Female Sanitary Inspectors.
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