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The number of deaths from suffocation or overlying was
only one. In the previous four years the deaths from
suffocation in bed averaged 4 a year, and in the four
years 1904-7 they averaged 7. This speedy diminution has
no doubt been aided by the Children's Act.
The death-rate per 1,000 births from premature birth in
Woolwich Borough was 14'2, compared with 14.0, 17.9,
18.1, and 189 in the four preceding years. In London it
was 18.8 in 1912.
There were 14 deaths of illegitimate infants. The deathrate
of illegitimate infants under one year was 215 per
1,000 births, and that of legitimate children 77.
20. Compared with 1912, the past year had among
infants more deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis, gastritis,
syphilis, convulsions, and pneumonia, and fewer from measles,
whooping-cough, premature birth, suffocation, tuberculosis,
and bronchitis.
21. 79 still-births were notified, compared with 54, 68,
and 64, in the three previous years.
22. Deaths between One and Five Years. 55 deaths
occurred between one and two years, and 38 between two
and five. The corresponding figures in 1912 were 68 and
51 respectively. The death-rate between one and five was
9.0 per 1,000 children of that age found at the Census.
23. Zymotic Death Rate. The number of deaths from
scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping-cough, enteric
fever, and from diarrhoea and enteritis, under two years of