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Four Metropolitan Boroughs had a lower infantile mortality
than Woolwich, viz.:—Hampstead, Chelsea, Lewisham, and
Stoke Newington.
* 1888, 1889 and 1890.
The infantile death-rate was the lowest yet recorded. The
Eltham rate has not exceeded 70 since 1908. In 1911
Erith had the lowest infantile death-rate of any English
town, viz.: 70.
19. Table IVA. gives full details as to the ages at death and
causes of death of the 201 infants dying in 1912 under one
year. It shows that 45 per cent. who died were under one
month old, compared with 37 per cent. in the previous eight
years. 52 deaths were from premature birth, compared
with 61, 72, 41, 51, and 51, in the five preceding years. The
number of deaths under one week in the past five years was
76, 55, 72, 62, and 61, respectively.