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Chart A shows deaths from all causes recorded weekly
and the seasonal effect with regard to Infantile Diarrhœa and
diseases of the Respiratory Group.
Table 10 shows the total deaths in 12 classes registered in
each quarter, from which it will be seen that deaths from
diseases of the respiratory organs, were the highest during
the first and fourth quarters of the year and infective diseases
during the third quarter.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The infant mortality of a district is measured by the
proportion of deaths of infants under one year to registered
births.
England and Wales.—The infant mortality rate for
England and Wales was 128 per 1,000, being 17 per 1,000 below
1904, and lower than the rate in any other year on record.
In the 76 Great Towns the infant mortality was 140 per
1,000, compared with 150 per 1,000, the mean of the three
preceding years. The towns having the lowest figures were
Hornsey 66, Handsworth 60, Bournemouth 83, Burton-onTrent
87, Kings Norton 89. The towns with the highest rates
were Grimsby 174, Norwich 174, Merthyr Tydfil 193, Hanley
195, and Rhondda 200.
In London the average infant mortality amounted to 129
per 1,000 births, compared with 144 in 1904 and 146 the mean of
the three preceding years. The lowest records were Marylebone
88, Holborn 92, Lewisham 93, Hampstead 94, and Woolwich
102; the highest being Poplar 153, Bethnal Green 151, Southwark
148, and Bermondsey 148.