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Total No. of Births (uncorrected). Total Deaths under 1 year (uncorrected) Infantile Mortality per 1,000 births (uncorrected).
Lambeth Church* 2436 271 111.2
Kennington† 1311 107 81.6
Stockwell‡ 1916 131 68.4
Brixton 1465 150 102.4
Norwood 1040 56 53.8
Lambeth 8168 715 87.5
Inner Districts—94.3, Outer Districts—78.4.
*Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births, the rate is 174.9.
†Excluding all the Workhouse births, the rate is 95.4.
‡Excluding all the Maternity births, the rate is 95.4.
N.B.—The births and deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-Districts are
divided equally between the Inner and Outer Districts for the purpose of
calculating infantile mortality rates for such Districts in this Table.
The Infantile Mortality is regarded as a sensitive index of
the sanitary state of a District, and, judged by this index,
Lambeth Borough again takes a good position amongst
Sanitary Districts, a satisfactory fact to be able to
state and one that is due to the precautionary measures
that are taken.
Systematic visiting and giving advice as to the feeding
and management of infants and children, together with the
free distribution of official pamphlets dealing with the same
and kindred subjects, account in part for the decline in the
infantile mortality-rate throughout the Borough, whilst the
influence of the Milk Depot must not be forgotten. The
Notification of Births Act, 1907, is valuable in connection
with precautionary measures taken to prevent infantile
mortality. Meteorological conditions were favourable
during 1912 to a low infantile mortality-rate (vide Diarrhoea).
A leaflet was distributed freely throughout the crowded
Inner Districts of the Borough during 1912, dealing with
preventive measures to be taken against Summer
Diarrhoea (vide Appendix).