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16 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1937.
The number of deaths which occurred in Institutions, etc.,
inside the Borough was 1,384 but 1,081 of these persons did not
belong to the Borough.
A total of 2,396 persons belonging to the Borough died in
Institutions, 303 occurring in Institutions within the Borough
and 2,093 in Institutions outside the Borough.
Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths under one year was 246—49 in
Clapham, 25 in Putney, 39 in Balham, 33 in Streatham, 22 in
Tooting, and 78 in Wandsworth. As the number of births was
3,940 the Infantile Mortality rate was 62 per 1,000 births, compared
with 58 last year and with a decennial average of 55.
The rate is higher than for the whole of London, which was
60 per 1,000 births.
For the 10 years ending 1918 the average infantile mortality
rate was 87, while for the 10 years ending 1936, the average rate
was 55.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 223
to 3,739 births—a mortality of 59 per 1,000 births, while the
number of deaths among illegitimate infants was 23 to 201 births
—a mortality of 114 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.