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The diminution in the number of Deaths under one year of age is
satisfactory, only 18 per cent. of the total Mortality in your District in 1907
occurring in infants, whilst in 1906 23 per cent., and upon the average of
the last five years, 24 per cent. of the Deaths occurred in infants.
The most marked increases occurred in the two age groups, five and
under fifteen, and fifteen and under twenty-five, and also in the old age
group (sixty-five years and upwards), in which nearly twenty-seven per cent.
of the total Mortality was placed. The Infantile Mortality was, in 1907,
I am glad to say, the lowest on record. Only one hundred and eleven (111)
per one thousand Births was the rate obtaining in 1907, as compared with
one hundred and seventeen (117) in 1906, one hundred and nineteen (119) in
1905, and an average of one hundred and thirty (130) in the decade 1897—
1906.
It is satisfactory to note the steady decrease in the Deaths of infants
and the longer duration of life on the average, and this affords some compensation
for the deplorable condition of the Birth-rate.
The Infantile Mortality throughout England and Wales in 1907 was
one hundred and eighteen (118) per thousand Births, and for the Rural
Districts one hundred and six (106) per thousand; that of your District
being below the general rate of the whole country, but somewhat higher
than the average rate for the more rural portions of England.
Croston Sub-District, as in 1906, has again yielded the lowest
Infantile Mortality, viz, seventy-three (73) per thousand Births, Rivington
seventy-seven (77), Chorley one hundred and seveneeen (117), Leyland one
hundred and twenty-four (124), and Brindle one hundred and fifty-nine (159)
per thousand Births.
I give in Table V., appended to this Report, the Deaths of Infants
under one year of age, arranged under the diseases to which they were due,
and the number of weeks or months that they lived. Eighteen (18) Infants
died under one month from Birth, and thirty-nine between one and twelve
months.
Four (4) died from Infectious Diseases, viz, Measles two (2), and
Whooping Cough two (2); three (3) from Diarrhœal Diseases, twenty-six
(26) from Wasting Diseases, two (2) from Tuberculous Diseases, and twentytwo
(22) from other causes.