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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, Diarrhcea and Enteritis.
Infantile Mortality.
The total number of deaths of infants under one year was
589, compared with 605 in 1913, 516 in 1912, and 823 in 1911, and
is 216 under the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
Of these, 92 occurred in Clapham, 41 in Putney, 167 in Streatham,
110 in Tooting, and 179 in Wandsworth.
The infantile mortality or deaths under one year to 1,000
births, was 88 compared with 88 in 1913, 76 in 1912, and 122 in
1911.
This rate was 76 in Clapham, compared with 96 the decennial
average ; 87 in Putney, compared with 85 ; 86 in Streatham,
compared with 85 ; 114 in Tooting, compared with 123 ; and 84
in Wandsworth, compared with 108.
In the whole Borough the rate was the same as that for 1913,
but 13 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 Wandsworth. In Tooting the rate was
higher than in any of the other sub-districts, but was nine under
the decennial average.