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This is a considerable increase on the rate of the previous year
(140.3), and is due almost entirely to an unusually severe epidemic
of summer diarrhoea, in which infants under 1 year formed 83 per
cent of the fatal cases.
The infantile mortality rates for the year were, in England and
Wales 146, in London 146, and in the 76 great towns 160.
The following are the chief causes that have contributed to the
infant deaths:—
Measles 5
Whooping cough 2
Influenza 1
Diarrhoea 126
Enteritis 10
Erysipelas 1
Tuberculous disease 15
Bronchitis 16
Pneumonia 17
Venereal disease 1
Premature birth 31
Accidents 3
All other causes 78
Total 306
The figures for the wards are as follows:-
Deaths under Infantile
Ward. 1 year. mortality.
Bury Street 114 180.3
Church Street 106 177.8
Fore Street 86 129.7
In a special report which will be found in the appendix, 1 have
gone somewhat fully into the conditions that govern the mortality