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1962 1963
Barking England & Wales Barking England & Wales
Infant death rate 4.82 21.6 29.18 20.9
Stillbirth rate 16.13 18.1 22.81 17.3
During the first three months of 1963, we had the worst climatic
conditions since the century began, and as a result, at both ends of
the life span, deaths increased. The stock of coal was severely
depleted in the area, and heating by electricity and gas was reduce
owing to the phenomenal demands on the plants installed. Infants by
their helplessness and rapid loss of heat, and the old folk by their
comparative inactivity suffered most. It was an arctic winter that no
one wishes to see repeated.
The following table shows the loss of infant life during the last
sixteen years.
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