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Infant Deaths.—The infant death-rate of 49 per thousand
births is only one above the death-rate of 48 recorded in the previous
year. There were, however, more infant deaths, a total of 102
in the year under review compared with 91 in 1935.
The infant death-rate for the Borough, 49, compares very
favourably with the rates for England and Wales, for the 122
Great Towns, and for London, which are respectively, 59, 63
and 66.
The causes of infant deaths, shown in the table on the following
page, indicate prematurity as the cause of 35 of the 102 infant
deaths, and pneumonia the cause of fifteen deaths. It will be seen
that 48 of the deaths occurred before the infant was one week old,
while 58 deaths occurred before the infant was four weeks old.
This latter figure gives a neo-natal death-rate of 28 per thousand
live births.