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Carshalton 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]

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The distribution of infant mortality by wards was as follows:—

Table: TABLE 6.INFANT MORTALITY-WARD DISTRIBUTION.

TABLE 6.

INFANT MORTALITY-WARD DISTRIBUTION.

WARDInfant DeathsRate per 1.000 live births
St. Helier North958
St. Helier South19
St. Helier West215
North-East536
North-West753
Central345
South-East796
South-West116

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These figures are too small to have any comparative value.
Those taken in respect of the three-year period 1935-1937, for
which such information is available, show that the rates approximate
more closely to one another in all the wards except the south
west where the mortality is a particularly low one (see Table 7).
These figures, covering as they do a three-year period, while
perhaps still rather inadequate, would tend to show that the
chance of survival to the age of one year is distinctly greater in
the south-west ward than in the rest of the distridt.

Table: TABLE 7INFANT MORTALITY OVER THREE YEARS 1935-1937 WARD DISTRIBUTION.

TABLE 7

INFANT MORTALITY OVER THREE YEARS 1935-1937 WARD DISTRIBUTION.

WARDInfant DeathsLive BirthsRate per 1,000 live births
St. Helier North54121044
St. Helier South
St. Helier West
North-East1739543
North-West1735647
Central1017457
South-East1222653
South-West316618