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10 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1929.
32 in Tooting and. 101 in Wandsworth. As the number of births
was 4,632, the Infantile Mortality rate was 61 per 1,000 births,
compared with 49 last year. The increase in the rate is due
to the increase in the number of deaths from Whooping Cough,
Pneumonia and Premature Birth.
The infantile mortality rate is higher than the last two
years, and except for 1926 when it was 64 per 1,000 births, it is
higher than it has been since 1921. The rate compares with
70 for the whole of London.
For the 10 years ending 1918 the average infantile mortality
rate was 87, while for the 10 years ending 1929 the average rate
was 58. This fall represents an annual saving of over 100
infant lives.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 258
to 4,401 births—a mortality of 58 per 1,000 births, while the
number of deaths among illegitimate infants was 26 to 231 births
—a mortality of 112 per 1,000 births.
Table VII. gives the corrected number of deaths, and the
cause of death, at various periods up to one year of age.