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Central London Throat Hospital.—'Suppuration of
middle ear, age 6 years.
Friedenheim Hospital.—Cancer, age 68.
Peckham House Asylum.—Heart disease, age 66.
CORRECTED DEATH-RATE.
The 11 deaths of residents outside the district, including
the deaths of six Harrow paupers in the Hendon
Workhouse, added to the 109 deaths registered in Harrow,
gives a total of 120. From this number are deducted
the deaths of six non-residents in the Harrow Cottage
Hospital, giving a nett total of 114, and a corrected
death-rate of 7.1 per 1,000. The death-rate for England
and Wales was 147, and for 142 of the smaller towns
14.7
When age and sex distribution are taken into
account the standard death-rate is 8'22.
INFANTILE DEATH-RATE.
The Infantile Death-rate for the year was 95 per 1,000
births, or about one-third more than that for 1907, when
it was 57. The average for the previous 10 years was
88.4
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
This year there is a sad increase in the mortality of
infants under one year of age. This increase is chiefly
owing to two causes, (1) Premature birth, which caused
15 deaths, or about double the number in 1907, and (2)
Diarrhoea and Enteritis, which caused 7 deaths, or 6
more than in 1907.
These causes of death, which are largely preventable,
deserve the serious consideration, of the Medical profession
of Harrow, and of the Babies' Health League.
Greater care of expectant mothers before confinement
would doubtless prevent a considerable number of
premature births, whilst better knowledge of the proper
feeding of infants and more scrupulous care in the
storage of their food, or, better still, in many cases, a
reversion to breast feeding would largely diminish, if
not entirely prevent, deaths which ensue upon disorders
of the infant's alimentary canal.
The rate of infantile mortality in England and
Wales was 121, and for 142 smaller towns 124.