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PNEUMONIA.
Twelve deaths were registered against 23 last
year. This gives a per centage of 6.85 of the deaths
from all causes, and a rate of .65 per 1000 of the
estimated population. Eight of the deaths occurred
in persons at the two extremes of life.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The number of deaths of infants under one year
of age belonging to the district was 18, including
one outside death, so the number upon which
this rate is calculated is 17, outside deaths not
being counted: this gives a rate of 41 per 1000 births
registered.
The number is exceptionally small, and the
lowest that has ever been recorded in Teddington.
The average for the past 10 years is 41.4, and the
average rate 105.9 per 1000 births. The next
lowest rate that I can find recorded is 61 per
1000 births for the year 1908.
The rate of Infantile Mortality fluctuates
from year to year, and Summer Diarrhœa plays an
important part in its regulation: that no case of
this disease is registered in the death returns is
undoubtedly a big factor, at the same time it
would have required a severe epidemic to have
brought the returns up to anything like the
average.
Several factors influence the Infantile
Mortality of a district, such as debility, premature
birth, accidents (including "overlying"), etc,
besides some of the diseases which are so fatal to
young children.