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*The Standardized death rates (formerly called corrected death rates)
are the rates which would have been recorded had the age and sex
constitution of the populations of the several areas been
identical with that of England and Wales as enumerated in 1901. The
corrections applied to the crude rates have been necessarily based upon the
constitution of the populations of the areas as enumerated in 1901, and are
therefore only approximately applicable to the conditions of 1913.
Infantile Mortality.
60 deaths occurred among children under one year of
age; this is equal to a death-rate of 64.5 per 1,000 births, as
compared with 62.6 in 1912. The infantile death-rate for the
whole of England and Wales was 109, and 104 for the administrative
County of London.
Table IV. shows the causes and the number of deaths
at the various ages under one year. Comparing this table
with last year, the most striking facts noticeable are the
considerably larger numbers due to diarrhoea, and comparatively
few due to prematurity.
The comparative mortality among legitimate and illegitimate
children was as follows:—
Legitimate
Illegitimate
No. of
Births
902
28
No. of
Deaths
56
4
Percentage
of Deaths.
6.2
14.2