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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The preceding Table shows the proportion of deaths per 1,000
births for each week under one month, and for each month to one
year of age, from five groups of diseases.
The statistics for the whole of London and for England and
Wales are not yet available, so no comparison can be made
between these rates and those for the whole' country. Compared
with the rate for the whole of England and Wales for 1906, the
proportion of deaths under one year from Infectious diseases is
higher, owing to the increased number of deaths in this Borough
from Whooping Cough. The proportion of deaths from Diar•
rhoeal diseases is only 15.08, compared with 32.63 in England and
Wales for 1906, but this rate for England and Wales will be
considerably lower in 1907.
From Wasting diseases, the rate from which is to some
extent influenced by climatic conditions, the rate under one year
in the Borough was 39•44, compared with 44'77 in England and
Wales for 1906.
From Tuberculous diseases the rate in the Borough was 2•75,
compared with 4•92 in England and Wales for 1906, and from
other causes 36•40 in the Borough, compared with 43.10.
Compared with the five years 1901•05 for England and Wales,
the rate in this Borough was, from common Infectious diseases
1'33 per 1,000 higher, from Diarrhceal diseases 10•36 lower, from
Wasting diseases 5•97 lower, and from other causes 15.99 lower.
Several other comparisons might be made, but generally the
rate in the Borough for the year compared most favourably with
the five years 1901•05 for the whole of England and Wales.
In the preceding Table it will also be seen that the rate from
common Infectious diseases was highest at 8•9 months, from
Diarrhceal diseases at 3.4 months and 5•6 months, from Wasting
diseases under one week, from Tuberculous diseases at 6•7
months, and from other causes at 1•2 months.
From all causes the highest rate was under one week and
the lowest at 10•11 months.
The next Table shows the proportion of deaths among illegitimate
infants to x,ooo illegitimate births, compared with the
deaths among legitimate infants to 1,000 legitimate births for the
year 1907.