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Infantile Mortality.
261 deaths of St. Pancras infants under one year of age occurred in 1928. This gives
an Infant Mortality rate (number of deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births) of 80, as
compared with a rate of 62 in 1927.
The following table gives the deaths and death rates of Infants, both legitimate and
illegitimate, for 1928:—
Legitimate. Illegitimate. Total.
Number of Births 3,036 238 3,274
Number of Deaths (under one year of age) 225 36 261
Death rate per 1,000 births 74 151 80
The causes of the high Infant Mortality in 1928 were an exceptionally heavy death
rate from Measles, no less than 30 Infants under one year of age having died from this cause,
and associated with this were high death rates from Broncho-Pneumonia, Enteritis, Premature
Birth and other Congenital causes.
Of the total deaths which occurred of Infants under one year of age during 1928,
Measles was responsible for 11.5 per cent., Broncho. Pneumonia for 16*5 per cent., Diarrhoea
and Enteritis, 15.7 per cent., and Premature Birth and other Congenital causes, 37.2 per cent.
In Table 1, on page 92, the Infantile Mortality rates are given for previous years, and
in Table 3, on page 95, the figures will be found for each Ward. Table 4, on page 96, gives
the Infant Mortality rates for England and Wales, the County of London, the Metropolitan
Boroughs, and certain other large towns.
On the next two pages tables are given which indicate:—
1. The causes of death of all children under one year of age during 1928,
classified according to age at death.
2. The causes of death of children under one year of age during the ten
previous years. In this table the number of births in each year is also given
for reference.