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deaths from Respiratory Diseases, and where Influenza
deaths are few there is a fall from Respiratory Disease.
Cancer during the past five years has remained at a stationary
rate in Bromley.
Infantile Mortality.
During the year 26 deaths of infants under one year
of age were registered. This figure is three less than the
previous year, and gives a Mortality Rate of 41 per 1,000
births. It is satisfactory to record that the lowering of
the rate is still maintained, and the rate for 1930 ranks
next to the lowest recorded rate for Bromley of 33.5 in
1926.

The average Infantile. Mortality Rate for the past fire
years is 44 per 1,000 births, as compared with 62 per 1,000
of the previous five years, and 77 of the fire years ending 1920.
Appendix IV gives detailed statistics of the causes of
Infantile Mortality during 1930, and by reference thereto
it will be seen that 11 babies died before completing the
first week of life, and a further four babies died before
the end of the first month. Two of these latter cases
resulted because of maternal inefficiency; one of the remedial
social conditions that play important parts in the
deaths of the tender infants. The employment of unqualified
persons as maternity nurses tends not only to
faculty teaching of the young mother, hut does not give an
ailing baby the attention it requires.