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19. Table 4b gives full details as to the ages at death
and causes of death of the 273 infants dying in 1911 under
one year. It shows that 34 per cent. (43 in 1910) of those
who died were under one month old, compared with 37 per
cent. in the previous six years. 51 deaths were from
premature birth, compared with 75, 61, 72, 41, and 51, in the
five preceding years, and 31 (27 in 1910) were attributed
to Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus, indefinite terms applied
to deaths from immaturity, congential syphilis, and other
causes. The number of deaths under one week in the past
five years was 83, 76, 55, 72, and 62, respectively.
It is satisfactory to note that in the past four years
the deaths from suffocation in bed have averaged only 4 a
year, whereas in the four years 1904-7 they averaged 7.
The death-rate per 1,000 births from premature birth in
Woolwich Borough was 18.1, compared with 14.0, and 17.9,
in the two preceding years. In London it was 18.5 in
1910.
There were 17 deaths of illegitimate infants. The deathrate
of illegitimate infants under one year was 472 per 1,000
births, and that of legitimate children, 92.
20. Compared with 1910 the past year had among
infants more deaths from debility, meningitis, diarrhoea and
enteritis, and fewer from measles, whooping-cough, congenital
defects, syphilis, rickets, and bronchitis. Deaths from overlying
were 5, compared with 2, 8, 5, 1, and 5, in the previous
five years.
21. Still-Births. 74 still-born children were buried in