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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 increase in the percentage of deaths under one year and
from one and under five years was due to the increase in the number
of deaths from Measles, Diarrhœa and Enteritis.
Infantile Mortality.
The total number of deaths of infants under one year was
C05, compared with 516 in 1912, 823 in 1911 and 545 in 1910, and is
225 under the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
Of these, 107 occurred in Clapham, 42 in Putney, 139 in
Streatham, 95 in Tooting, and 222 in Wandsworth.
The infantile mortality or deaths under one year to 1,000
births, was 88 compared with 76 in 1912, 122 in 1911, and 78 in
1910.
This rate was 82 in Clapham, compared with 99 the decennial
average; 85 in Putney, compared with 109; 74 in Streatham,
compared with 89; 91 in Tooting, compared with 127; and 103
in Wandsworth, compared with 108.
In the whole Borough the rate was 12 per 1,000 births above
that for 1912, but 16 under the decennial average.
In all the sub-districts, there has been a decrease in this rate
compared with the decennial average, this decrease having been
greatest in Clapham and Tooting. In Wandsworth the rate was
higher than in any of the other sub-districts, but was five under
the decennial average.