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in the four years 1904-7 they averaged 7. This speedy
diminution has no doubt been aided by the Children's Act
of 1908.
The death-rate per 1,000 births from premature birth in
Woolwich Borough was 20.5, compared with 14.0, 17 9,
18.1, 18 9, and 14.2, in the five preceding years. In London
it was 18.8 in 1912.
There were 7 deaths of illegitimate infante. The deathrate
of illegitimate infants under one year was 119 per
1,000 births, and that of legitimate children 84.
20. Compared with 1913, the past year had among infants
more deaths from measles, whooping-cough, premature birth,
meningitis (tuberculous and non-tuberculous), and pneumonia;
and fewer from convulsions and enteritis.
21. 59 still-births were notified, compared with 54, 68,
€4, and 79, in the four previous years. The still-births
are, like the deaths from premature births, the result of
inherited disease or other conditions affecting the infant In
the uterus and should be counted together with them. If
we do this for the years 1913 and 1914 we see thait the
total numbers for each year are 120 and 117 respectively;
i.e., the decrease in still-births accompanied an increase in
deaths from premature birth. A large proportion of these
deaths is due to syphilis.
22. Deaths between One and Five Years. 67 deaths (55
in 1913), occurred between one and two years, and 74 (38
in 1913), between two and five. The corresponding figures
in 1912 were 68 and 51 respectively. The death-rate