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The infantile mortality in England and Wales in 1913 was
109 per 1,000 births, and in the 96 large towns it was 117 per
1,000 births.
The deaths were distributed as follows :—
Xorth-East Ward 16
North-West Ward 18
South-East Ward 29
South-West Ward 64
The infantile mortality in each ward was :—
North-East 48 per 1,000 births.
North-West 78 ,, ,,
South-East 80 „ „
South-West 114 ,, ,,
The infantile mortality is lower in the North-East and NorthWest
Wards and higher in the two others.
In the memorandum to Medical Officers of Health on the
preparation of their Annual Reports, it is suggested that use should
be made of the comparative figures given in the Second Report to
the Local Government Board on Infant and Child Mortality. In
this Report detailed figures for the years 1907-1910 are given for
241 urban areas. The 241 urban areas were composed of three
groups. The first group consisted of the county boroughs, 75 in
number, and 26 boroughs and urban districts having a population
of over 50,000 at the census of 1911. The second group consisted
of hi boroughs and urban districts, each of which prior to the
census of 1911 had a population between 20,000 and 50,000. The
third group consisted of the 29 metropolitan boroughs, each of
which, with two exceptions, had a population of over 50,000 at the
last census.
The 241 areas were classified in order of infant mortality
rates into 9 groups of 25, a final group of 16 remaining. The
infantile mortality varied from 155.1 per 1,000 births in Group 1
to 74.2 in Group X. Acton is placed in Group V., which group
has an average infantile mortality of 116.5. The infantile mortality
of Acton for the 4 years 1907-1910 was 115, and the position
it holds was number 124 from the top.