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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The next Table shows the infantile mortality rate per 1,000 births
for the whole Borough and for each sub-district from all causes, and
from certain causes. An examination of this Table shows that this
mortality differs very much in the different sub-districts of the
Borough, more especially in the case of Developmental Diseases,
Diarrhoea, and from Diseases of the Respiratory Organs. For example,
from Developmental Diseases the rate was in Streatham only 16.96,
whereas in Tooting it was 40.40; from Diarrhoea the rate was in
Putney only 3.78, and in Tooting 28.05; and from Respiratory Diseases
it was 14.14 in Streatham, and 24.43 in Wandsworth.
The rate from Premature Birth was much the same in each
sub-district.
From Measles and Whooping Cough the rate in Putney was
exceptionally high, this being due to an outbreak of Measles there
during the year.
The Table also shows that about 44 per cent. of the total deaths
occurred from Premature Birth and Developmental Diseases, and of
the total deaths under one year from these causes 70 per cent.
occurred under one month, and of the total deaths from all causes
under one month 75 per cent. were caused by Premature Birth and
Congenital Defects.