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Report of the County Medical Officer—General.
Infant Mortality.
The deaths of children under one year of age in the Administrative County of London during
1913 (53 weeks) numbered 11,869, being in the proportion of 105 per 1,.000 births.
Deaths of
infants per
1,000 births.

The accompanying diagram (D) shows the infant mortality in each year since 1857 in relation
to the mean infant mortality of the period 1858-1913, and also the infant mortality in each year
after exclusion of the deaths from premature birth, which cause of death would in all probability be
aiTected in greater degree than the deaths under any other heading by the more complete registration
of recent vears.

Infant
mortality in
large English
towns.
London had therefore in the period 1908-12 a lower infant mortality than any of these towns
except Portsmouth. In 1913 the London rate was below that of all except Bristol and Portsmouth.
It should, howeyer, be pointed out that the comparative rates given in the above table, which
shows the deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births, are not fully corrected for births
in institutions except with regard to the rates for the Administrative County of London, as shown in
heavier tvne. The figures, therefore, to this extent, are not strictly comparable.

Deaths and
death rates
of infants
in London
boroughs.
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(a) See footnote (a), page 7. (b) See footnotes (b) and (c), page 6.