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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
These differences are due to the differences in the age constitution
of the population in the separate sub-districts, as well as the
difference in social conditions.
The decrease in the percentage of deaths under one year and
from one to five years was due to the great decrease in the number
of deaths from Measles, Diarrhoea and Enteritis.
Infantile Mortality.
The total number of deaths of infants under one year was
516, compared with 823 in 1911, 545 in 1910, and 601 in 1909, and is
350 under the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
Of these, 93 occurred in Clapham, 34 in Putney, 108 in
Streatham, 97 in Tooting, and 184 in Wandsworth.
The infantile mortality, or deaths under one year to 1,000
births, was 76 compared with 122 in 1911, 78 in 1910, and 86 in 1909,
and is the lowest rate ever recorded.
This rate was 76 in Clapham, compared with 103 the decennial
average; 69 in Putney, compared with 114; 58 in Streatham,
compared with 94; 100 in Tooting, compared with 129; and 83
in Wandsworth, compared with 113.
In the whole Borough the rate was 60 per 1,000 births under
that for 1911, and 46 under the decennial average.
In all the sub-districts, there has been a marked decrease in
this rate compared with the decennial average, this decrease having
been greatest in Putney and Wandsworth. In Tooting the rate
was higher than in any of the other sub-districts, but was 16 per 1,000
under the rate for that sub-district for 1911, and 29 under the
decennial average.