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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith]
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The activities of those who have been engaged in Infant
Welfare Work continues to be carried on with enthusiasm
by both voluntary and municipal workers.
Hammersmith is fourteenth on the list of the twenty-eight
Boroughs, and the mortality rate is 2 per 1,000 lower than
the average for the whole of London.
The infant mortality rates of the London Boroughs varies
from 45 in Lambeth to 88 in Shoreditch.
The following Chart shows the Infantile Mortality rate for the years
1903-1925.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
Milk (Mothers and Children) Orders, 1918-1919.—Under
these orders the Council has continued to supply milk to