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Infant Mortality.
The summer of last year exacted a heavier toll among infants
than has been experienced since 1906 ; seventy deaths occurred in
children under one year of age, making an infantile mortality rate
of 95.7 per thousand births.
It will be seen from Table IV. that this excess of infantile
deaths was largely due to summer or epidemic diarrhoea, which
was responsible for 24 victims, or a rate of 33-2 per 1,000 births.
The greatest mortality from diarrhoeal diseases was attained, as
will be seen in the accompanying chart, during the last week in
August, when six deaths occurred.
Chart shewing infantile mortality from Diarrhceal Diseases,
during 13 weeks commencing 23rd July,
The distribution of deaths was general throughout the district
Barnes and Mortlake parishes having an equal number. The only
common point was that the deaths occurred almost exclusively in