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10Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1931.
Tooting and 72 in Wandsworth. As the number of births was
4,334 the Infantile Morality rate was 59 per 1,000 births, compared
with 55 last year. The increase in the rate is due to the
increase in the number of deaths from Whooping Cough.
The infantile mortality rate is slightly higher than the
decennial average, which was 56. The tale is lower than that for
the whole of London, which was 65 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 56. This fall represents a saving of over 200 infant lives
per annum.
The number of deaths among legitimate infants was 240
to 4,134 births a mortality of 58 per 1,000 births, while the
number of deaths among illegitimate infants was 19 to 200 births
-a mortality of 95 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.