Report on the public health of Finsbury 1909 including annual report on factories and workshops.
- Finsbury (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Report on the public health of Finsbury 1909 including annual report on factories and workshops. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![38 TABLE G.† ]The Borough. North Clerkenwell. South Clerkenwell. St. Luke. St. Sepulchre. No. of Infant Deaths Infant Mortality No. of Infant Deaths Infant Mortality No. of Infant Deaths Infant Mortality No. of Infant Deaths Infant Mortality No. of Infant Deaths Infant Mortality 1901 *533 163.8 158 149.2 124 I39.6 172 137.0 6 162.1 1902 588 174.9 183 173.3 152 172.7 217 178.4 6 157.9 1903 503 159.1 163 153.8 125 142.2 2I0 176.5 5 151.5 1904 522 168.6 191 177.2 123 147.8 206 178.7 2 60. 6 1905 429 148.6 146 148.2 98 121.7 178 165.5 7 333. 4 1906 474 157.3 183 172.5 116 135.9 166 157.0 9 2I9.5 1907 368 127.0 119 116.5 105 135.1 136 128.3 8 307.7 Clerkenwell 1908 400 137.0 Infant Deaths. 236 Infant Mortality. 131.0 163 150.1 1 34.5 1909 366 128.0 219 135.0 131 130. 0 6 300.0 *The return for 1901 includes 73 infant deaths taking place outside the Borough but belonging to Finsbury, and which cannot now be distributed in districts. Throughout the table, births taking place in the City of London Lying-in Hospital, but not belonging to Finsbury have been excluded and the births taking place in City Road Workhouse and other places belonging to Finsbury, have been included. † Contains the Corrected Rates calculated by the Medical Officer. These figures show that in recent years, Finsbury has made marked and definite progress in dealing with the saving of infant life. This is also borne out by referring to the chart, which repre sents the same thing graphically—whether we take the crude rates, the corrected rates, or the rates calculated by the Registrar General, definite improvement is manifested. The Registrar General's figures for Finsbury in 1909 is 131, as against 133 in the preceding year. Infant Death Investigation.—The usual enquiries have been made and the statistics are tabulated in the accompanying tables, which record the results in 265 deaths occurring in 1909. The third table is a summary of the work done during the years 1904 to 1909.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18108921_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
