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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Table which follows shows the infantile mortality rate
per 1,000 births for the whole Borough, and for each sub-district,
from certain causes, and from all causes.
From Premature Birth the rate was lowest in Putney and
highest in Clapham, from Developmental diseases lowest in
Wandsworth and highest in Tooting, from Measles and Whooping
Cough lowest in Streatham and highest in Tooting, from
Respiratory diseases lowest in Streatham and highest in Tooting,
from Tubercular diseases lowest in Wandsworth and highest in
Streatham, and from other causes lowest in Clapham and highest
in Wandsworth.
From all causes this mortality was lowest in Streatham, being
only 81 per 1,000 births, compared with 87 in 1907, and highest in
Tooting, 122 compared with 146.