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of age to births registered was 136 per 1,000 or 134 per 1,000,
after distribution of the births in the chief Lying-in Institutions.
Taking, as in former years, the uncorrected rate, this
was 20 per 1,000 below the decennial average, and was lower
than in any year, excepting 1903.
The corresponding corrected rate of the County of
London was 131, and among the various Metropolitan
Boroughs the lowest rates were 77 in Hampstead, 101 in the
City of London, and 102 in Stoke Newington; while the
highest were 155 in Bethnal Green, 160 in Finsbury, and 163
in Shoreditch.
In England and Wales the rate of infantile mortality was
133 per 1,000, and in the 76 great towns it averaged 145 per
1,000.
Causes of Infantile Mortality.
The following tables give the causes of infantile deaths at
various periods under one year in the whole of the Borough,
and in the several wards into which it is divided.
Of the 649 deaths, 126, or 19.4 per cent., occurred in the
first week, and 196, or 30.2 per cent., in the first four weeks
of life. In the second month 9.1 per cent., and in the third
month 7.6 per cent, of the deaths under one year occurred, or
46.9 per cent, in the first three months of life. In the second
three months 22 per cent., during the third three months 17.3
per cent., and during the last three months 13.8 per cent, of
all the first year deaths occurred.
Of the deaths occurring in the first month, upwards of twothirds
were ascribed to prematurity, or congenital defects,
including atrophy and debility, these being mainly due to
the ill-health or defective nutrition of the mother. Of the
deaths occurring after the first month no less than 222, or
49 per cent, of all the deaths at the ages of one to 11 months,
were due to diarrhoeal diseases; the death-rate of infants
under one year of age from these being 47.8 per 1,000 births