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Borough, and 383 occurred at the Maternity Hospital and
belong to districts outside Lambeth Borough. In this way,
the corrected number of births for the Borough is 7,083*.
The corrected infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected
deaths under one year per 1,000 corrected births) is,
therefore, 84.4. The annual average for the decennium
1901-10 (Borough), is 122.7. In calculating this corrected
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
times of such births. Taking the uncorrected births and the
corrected deaths under 1 year, the infantile mortality rate
is 73.2. The annual average for the decennium 1901-10
(Borough), is 114.8.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (8,168) and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (715),
the uncorrected infantile mortality is 87.2. The annual
average for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough) is 123.8, and
that for the decennium 1891-1900 (Parish) is 150.5. The
chief causes of the deaths were debility, atrophy and inanition,
congenital malformations, measles, whooping-cough,
bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory organs,
diarrhœa, and premature births.
In the Registration Sub-Districts, the uncorrected
infantile mortality varied from 111.2 per 1,000 births in
Lambeth Church to 55.8 in Norwood (the low rates of
111.2 in Lambeth Church, 81.6 in Kennington, and 68.4
in Stockwell, being due to the fact that these Sub-Districts
contain the General Lying-in Hospital, the Workhouse and
the Clapham Road Maternity Hospital respectively), thus—
* The Registrar-General returns the corrected number of births
for the Borough during 1912 as 6 952.