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Woolwich 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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16. The infantile death-rate has been reduced even more,
viz., to 59 per cent. of what it was in 1891.
INFANT MORTALITY.
17. The deaths under one year were 239, compared with
229 in 1913. The infant mortality (deaths under one year
per 1,000 births) was 84, compared with 73 in 1912., with
80 in 1913, and 97, the average of the ten preceding years.

The following table gives the infantile mortality in the Borough since 1901,compared with the neighbouring Boroughs, London, and England:—

1901-5.1906-101911.1912.1913.1914.
Lewisham11292104707874
Greenwich1071121298410398
West Ham158126141102107108
East Ham1311061197164
Erith1128070698191
London13811412890105104
97 Great Towns127140101116113
England & Wales13511513093109105
Woolwich Borough1199798738084

Five Metropolitan Boroughs only had a lower infantile
mortality than Woolwich, viz., Hampstead, Lewisham, Stoke
Newington, Westminster, and Chelsea.
18. The following table gives the infantile mortality