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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1936.
The number of deaths which occurred in Institutions, etc.,
inside the Borough was 1,439, but 1,136 of these persons did not
belong to the Borough.
A total of 2,367 persons belonging to the Borough died in
Institutions, 303 occurring in Institutions within the Borough
and 2,064 in Institutions outside the Borough.
Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths under one year was 230—44 in
Clapham, 20 in Putney, 45 in Balham, 35 in Streatham, 23 in
Tooting, and 64 in Wandsworth. As the number of births was
3,932 the Infantile Mortality rate was 58 per 1,000 births, compared
with 55 last year and with a decennial average of 56.
The rate is lower than for the whole of London, which was
66 per 1,000 births.
For the 10 years ending 1918 the average infantile mortality
rate was 87, while for the 10 years ending 1935, the average rate
was 56.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 213
to 3,739 births—a mortality of 56 per 1,000 births, while the
number of deaths among illegitimate infants was 17 to 193 births
—a mortality of 88 per 1,000 births.
Table VI. 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.