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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The increase in the percentage of deaths under five years was
due to the great increase in the number of deaths from Measles,
Diarrhoea and Enteritis.
Infantile Mortality.
The total number of deaths of infants under one year was
823, compared with 545 in 1910, 601 in 1909, 720 in 1908, and 715
in 1907, and is 52 under the decennial average corrected for increase
of population.
Of these, 156 occurred in Clapham, 70 in Putney, 180 in
Streatham, 116 in Tooting, and 301 in Wandsworth.
The infantile mortality, or deaths under one year to 1,000
births was 122, compared with 78 in 1910, 86 in 1909, 98 in 1908,
101 in 1907, and 125 in 1906.
This rate was 119 in Clapham, compared with 104 the decennial
average; 145 in Putney, compared with 112; 99 in Streatham,
compared with 96; 116 in Tooting, compared with 137, and 143
in Wandsworth, compared with ill.
In the whole Borough the rate was 54 per 1,000 births above
that for 1910, and 13 above the decennial average.
The rate in 1911 was higher than it has been since 1906,'when
it was 125 per 1,000, and in the 10 years previous to 1911 it has only
been higher in 1901, 1902, 1904, and 1906.
In all the sub-districts, with the exception of Tooting, there has
been a marked increase in this rate compared with the decennial
average, this increase having been greatest in Putney and Wandsworth.
In Tooting the rate is lower by 21 than the decennial
average, and it has only been lower during the decennium in that
sub-district in the years 1909 and 1910.