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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1934.
The number of deaths which occurred in Institutions, etc.
inside the Borough was 1,410, but 1,146 of these persons did not
belong to the Borough.
A total of 2,086 persons belonging to the Borough died in
Institutions, 264 occurring in Institutions within the Borough
and 1,822 in Institutions outside the Borough.
Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths under one year was 221—45 in
Clapham, 18 in Putney, 30 in Balham, 42 in Streatham, 30 in
Tooting and 56 in Wandsworth. As the number of births was
3,791 the Infantile Mortality rate was 58 per 1,000 births, compared
with 50 last year.
The infantile mortality rate is 58, compared with 56, the
decennial average. The rate is lower than that for the whole
of London, which was 67 per 1,000 births.
For the 10 years ending 1918 the average infantile mortality
rate was 87, while the 10 years ending 1934 the average rate
was 56.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 199
to 3,645 births—a mortality of 54 per 1,000 births, while the
number of deaths among illegitimate infants was 22 to 146 births
—a mortality of 150 per 1,000 births.
Table VII. gives the comparative figures of infantile
mortality for the last 10 years for the whole of the Borough
and for each of the six sub-districts.