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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 18.9, compared with 14.0, 17.9 and
18.1, in the three preceding years. In London it was 18.5 in
1910.
There were 9 deaths of illegitimate infants. The deathrate
of illegitimate infants under one year was 196 per 1,000
births, and that of legitimate children 71.
20. Compared with 1911, the past year had among infants
fewer deaths from debility, meningitis, diarrhcea and enteritis,
tuberculosis, congenital malformation, syphilis, convulsions
and suffocation, and more from measles, whoopingcough,
atelectasis, pneumonia and bronchitis. Deaths from
overlying were 3, compared with 8, 5,1,5, and 5, in the previous
five years.
21. Still-Births. 71 still-born children were buried in
Woolwich and Plumstead Cemeteries, compared with 97,
93, 92, 92, and 74, in the five preceding years.
64 still-births. were notified, compared with 54 and 68 in
1910 and 1911 respectively.
22. Deaths between One and Five Years. 68 deaths
occurred between one and two years, and 51 between two
and five. The corresponding figures in 1911 were 81 and 55
respectively. The prospect of life increases rapidly up to the
age period 10 to 15, and then gradually falls to old age.
23. Zymotic Death-Rate. The number of deaths from
scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping-cough, enteric