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The attached table shews the actual number of deaths, and also the
proportion per 1,000 deaths amongst infants (under 12 months old) in St.
Pancras, during the years 1905 and 190G, from:—
(1) Diarrhœal diseases.
(2) Bronchitis and Pneumonia.
(3) Premature Birth.
(4) All other causes combined.
The proportions show at a glance, that though Diarrhoea is responsible for
the largest number of deaths amongst infants, yet Bronchitis and Pneumonia,
and Premature Birth, are also important factors that must not be disregarded.
Relative Infantile Mortality from:—
1. Diarrhœal diseases
2. Bronchitis and Pneumonia as found in St. Pancras in the
3. Premature Birth years 1905 and 1906.
4. All other causes combined
1905. 1906.
deaths. deaths.
Diarrhœal diseases 161 deaths = 205 per 1000 197 deaths = 262 per 1000
Bronchitis and Pneumonia 145 „ =184 „ 136 „ = 181 „
Premature Birth 123 ,, =156 ,, 84 ,, = 111 „
All other causes 358 ,, 455 ,, 336 ,, = 446 ,,
787 753
Infantile Mortality Infantile Mortality
rate, 135.7 rate, 131.1
Percentage Tables of Modes of Feeding.—Attached hereto, are also Tables
A. B. C. showing:—
(a) The mode of feeding of infants visited, at the particular month of age
stated, during the year 1906 (and also merely for comparative purposes,
similar tables for i905* and 1904*). (A1,B1,C1).
(b) The above table, stated in proportion per cent., of the total of each
month. (A2,B2,C2).
(c) The above table, stated in proportion per cent., of the total of each
quarter. (A3,B3,C3).
*N.B. More infants under one month, were visited in 1906, than
in the two previous years, owing to the voluntary notification
of births within two days, having been in force in St. Pancras
during four months of 1906.
*N.B. The tables 1906, 1905, and 1904, are only truly comparable,
when the percentage of the total of each month (and
not of the whole year) is taken, and even then, only when
there is a sufficiently large number under consideration each
month.
Thus the figures under 2—3 months, in 1906, 1905, and
1904, may be regarded as truly comparable.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
Blanche Gardiner,
Sanitary Inspector.