Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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
1901-5. | 1906-10 | 1911. | 1912. | 1913. | 1914. | |
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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