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The Zymotic death.rate for London was 1.42.
The Registrar.General has ceased to calculate the Zymotic
death.rate as a whole, but he gives the rate for each disease
separately. I am therefore unable to compare our Zymotic death.
rate with those of England and Wales, and the 96 Great Towns.
INFANTILE DEATH.RATE.
The infantile mortality rate, i.e., the number of deaths of
children under one year of age per 1,000 births, was 83.3.
In 1906 our infantile mortality rate was 114.5
„ 1907 „ „ „ „ 86.5
„ 1908 „ „ „ „ 78.8
„ 1909 „ „ „ „ 81.9
,, 1910 „ „ „ „ 63.4
„ 1911 „ „ „ „ 111.6
„ 1912 „ „ „ „ 79.7
„ 1913 „ „ „ „ 83.3
On reference to the tables it will be seen that of the 242 deaths
which occurred in infants under one year of age, 128, or 52 per
cent., were due to ante.natal causes.
The infantile mortality rate for England and Wales was 109
„ „ „ „ London „ 105
„ „ „ „ the 96 Great Towns „ 117
There were 8 deaths of illegitimate children under 1 year of
age, viz. : 1 male and 7 females.
SMALL.POX.
One notification of this disease was received during the year,
but the case proved to be one of Chicken.pox. As pointed out in
last year.s Annual Report our agreement with the Metropolitan
Asylums Board terminated in March, and since that time we have
been without any Hospital accommodation for cases of this
disease.