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for 1906, 12 8 for 1905, 13.4 for 1904, 10.9 for 1903,
12.5 for 1902, and 13.4 for 1901. Of those 276 deaths
in 1909, 46 were under one year, giving an Infantile
Mortality Rate of 117.04 per 1,000 of births registered,
as against 46 08 per 1,000 for 1908.
infantile mortality.
The death rate of 117.04 per 1,000 compares unfavourably
with that of 46.08 per 1,000 for 1908. There
was a much diminished infantile death rate for England
during 1908, being a decrease of 21 per 1,000 as
compared with the average for the ten years previous.
The infantile death rate for 1907 was 102.56;
1906, 125.00; 1905, 126.34; 1904, 128.36. There were
59 deaths under 5 years, being a mortality rate of
21.3 per cent. compared with 35 in 1908, being a
mortality rate of 16.2 per cent.; and 55 deaths in 1907,
being a mortality rate of 18.9 per cent.
The death rate of visited infants was 37.2.
It is worthy of note that out of the 46 deaths under
one year of age, no less than 32 could not be
seen by the Health Visitor. Of these 32 deaths,
nine were brought into the district and died in the first
month of life, without our receiving any information of
their presence; eight died during first month of life whilst
under medical advice and were not in consequence seen
by the Health Visitor; six were premature births; four
deaths registered same day as birth; two found dead in
district; two born and died in Infirmary; and in one case
the mother objected to visit.
By the efficient working of the compulsory Notification
of Births Act (which has only been in force since June
1st, 1909), together with more stringent measures taken
recently with regard to overcrowding, and greater facilities
for ensuring a supply of pure milk for the infants of