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Infant Mortality. The deaths of infants under one year of age
in the Borough during the year of 1906 numbered 721. This figure
shows a decline in infant mortality compared with the year 1905,
the number of infant deaths for this latter year being 822. The
infant mortality for the year 1906 is therefore 123 per 1,000 births,
compared with 140 per 1,000 births for 1905. This fall in the infant
mortality is due to a diminished prevalence during 1906 of infectious
disease, epidemic diarrhoea and diseases of the lungs, such as
bronchitis and pneumonia. An encouraging feature is the diminution
in the deaths under one year due to epidemic or summer
diarrhoea, in spite of the fact that the atmospheric conditions during
the summer of 1906 were such as to lead one to anticipate rather an
increase in the deaths than a diminution.

The following table gives the causes of deaths of infants under
one year old :—