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all except one of which occurred after the children were four weeks
old. A study of these figures indicate the lines along which
preventive measures can be directed, in the first place in building
up the health of the expectant mother by ante-natal care and
secondly by careful nurture of the child and so increasing its
resistance to disease from birth onwards. In this Table it will be
noted that of the 84 deaths 44 occurred before the children were
four weeks old. These figures give what is called a neo-natal
death-rate of 25 per thousand births.
Still-births.—The number of still-births registered in the
Borough was 51, which gives a rate of 0.43 per thousand of
population. This rate is less than that for England and Wales
and that for London, which are respectively 0.67 and 0.50.
The Illegitimate Infant Death-rate is 77 per thousand illegitimate
births compared with the Legitimate Infant Death-rate
of 46 per thousand legitimate births.