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Health Department can have no knowledge of it. For the first time this year
complete entries have been made each week of births (with St. Pancras
addresses) occurring in Institutions outside St. Pancras (e.g. Queen Charlotte's
Lying-in Hospital, British Lying-in Hospital (Endell Street), Middlesex
Hospital, etc.), and these numbered 532.
Many of these notifications were duplicated, so much care was required to
ensure that the correct number of entries was made.
Weekly reports have been submitted to you as to the number of notifications,
the titles of notificants, and attendants; also quarterly reports as to the
number of births notified, registered, and visited, etc.
It is a matter for regret that so much time has to be spent upon clerical
work, that in consequence the more vital home-visiting, etc., has to be somewhat
neglected.
Infant Mortality.
The infant mortality rate, which (when estimated on the same basis of infant
deaths per 1000 births, exclusive of still births) in 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907 and
1908, was respectively 152, 136, 131, 114 and 115, was 109 in 1909.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
Blanche Gardiner,
Sanitary Inspector.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ST. PANCRAS
HOME OFFICE INQUIRY--1908 AND 1909.
SHORT EXPLANATORY NOTES.
Area of Inquiry was Ward VI., of Easf St. Pancras, thus including the
poorest part of the Borough (viz., Somers Town) :—
Every baby born and registered during 1908 in this Ward was visited, and,
the mother and baby having been seen, an Inquiry Form was filled in as far
as was possible At the first visit the baby was from 6 to 8 weeks old; and while
intermediate visits were frequently paid, the final visit was on or within a
few days of the child being 12 months old.
Births occurring during 1908. in Ward VI. (St. Pancras) 677
Of these " Removed " or "Not Known " at primary visit 69
,, "Removed" at final visit at 12 months 184*
„ Dead within 12 months 68‡
,, Surviving the first year 356
*Of those found " removed " at final visit some details had previously been collected.
These have been entered from the Inquiry Forms separately on to the Working Sheets,
but they were too incomplete to be summarised on the Sheets I. and II. (A., B. & C )
‡There may have been other deaths amongst those who were not able to be traced at
final visit.