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INFANTILE MORTALITY, 1896.
Of the 5,098 deaths, 1,313 were infants under one year of
age, giving a proportion of 136 9 (corrected) per 1,000 births,
the uncorrected rate being 142.9—a highly satisfactory
record. The chief causes of these deaths were debility,
atrophy and inanition, bronchitis and other diseases of the
respiratory organs, diarrhoea and enteritis, premature birth,
measles and whooping cough, and convulsions. Table I
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 260 4 per 1,000
births in Lambeth Church First to 104 2 in Norwood (the
low rate of 911 in Waterloo Road Second being explainable
by the fact that this Sub-district contains the General
Lying-in Hospital), thus:—
Total No.
of Births.
Total Deaths
under 1 year,
(uncorrected)
Infantile
Mortality per
1000 births
(uncorrected)
Waterloo Road 1st 502 115 229.08
„ „ 2nd 944 86 91.1*
Lambeth Church 1st 649 169 260.4
„ „ 2nd 1687 262 155.3†
Kennington 1st 1886 232 123.01
„ „ 2nd 1125 157 139.6
Brixton 2137 281 131.5
Norwood 662 69 104.2
Lambeth 9592 1371 142.9
* Including the Lying-in Hospital.
† Including the Workhouse.