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10 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1930.
33 in Tooting and 86 in Wandsworth. As the number of births
was 4,688 the Infantile Morality rate was 55 per 1,000 births,
compared with 61 last year. The decrease in the rate is due
to the decrease in the number of deaths from Whooping Cough.
The infantile mortality rate is lower than last year, and compares
favourably with the decennial average, which was 57, and
with the whole of London, which was 59 per 1,000 births.
For the 10 years ending 1918 the average infantile mortality
rate was 87, while the 10 years ending 1930 the average rate
was 57. This fall represents a saving of over 200 infant lives
per annum.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 238
to 4,443 births—a mortality of 53 per 1,000 births, while the
number of deaths among illegitimate infants was 22 to 245 births
—a mortality of 89 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.