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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1935.
The number of deaths which occurred in Institutions, etc.
inside the Borough was 1,327, but 1,052 of these persons did not
belong to the Borough.
A total of 2,143 persons belonging to the Borough died in
Institutions, 275 occurring in Institutions within the Borough
and 1,868 in Institutions outside the Borough.
Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths under one year was 209—54 in
Clapham, 17 in Putney, 29 in Balham, 37 in Streatham, 16 in
Tooting, and 56 in Wandsworth. As the number of births was
3,789 the Infantile Mortality rate was 55 per 1,000 births, compared
with 58 last year and with a decennial average of 56.
The rate is lower than for the whole of London, which was
58 per 1,000 births.
For the 10 years ending 1918 the average infantile mortality
rate was 87, while the 10 years ending 1935 the average rate
was 56.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 195
to 3,615 births—a mortality of 54 per 1,000 births, while the
number of deaths among illegitimate infants was 14 to 174 births
—a mortality of 80 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.