[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council 1911].

  • London County Council (London, England). County of London.
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[1913]
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    9 Report of the Medical Officer of Health. affected in greater degree than the deaths under any other heading by the more complete registration of recent years. The following table enables comparison to be made of the infantile mortality in London and other large English towns. Town. 1906-10. 1911. Town. 1906-10. 1911. London 114a 129a Bradford 132 138 Greater London 109 124 Hull 136 155 Liverpool 148 154 Newcastle-on-Tyne 130 136 Manchester 146 154 Nottingham 152 162 Birmingham 145 164 Stoke-on-Trent 165 202 Sheffield 138 140 Portsmouth 110 126 Leeds 134 158 Salford 134 149 Bristol 109 141 Leicester 137 132 West Ham 127 141 Infantile mortality in large English towns. London had therefore in the period 1906-10 a lower infantile mortality than any of these towns except Bristol and Portsmouth. In 1911 the London rate was below all except that of Portsmouth. The rates are uncorrected (except in the case of London) for births in institutions. The uncorrected London rate for 1911 was 131. The comparison of the infantile mortality rates of towns in different countries is undoubtedly affected by differences in the practice with regard to the registration and allocation of births and also by the extent to which correction is made for deaths amongst infants put out to nurse in suburbs, or in institutions. The rates shown in the following table, which are calculated on the number of living births registered, can only be taken as approximately correct. The rate for New York is somewhat overstated for the period 1906-10, owing to the incomplete registration of births prior to 1908. Town. 1906-10. 1911. Town. 1906-10. 1911. London 114a 129a Stockholm 103 77 Paris 106 118 St. Petersburg 256 231 Brussels 145 137 Berlin 164 173 Amsterdam 90 91 Vienna 172 166 Copenhagen 129 113 New York 136 112 Infantile mortality in foreign towns. The following table shows the deaths of infants under one year of age and the number these deaths per 1,000 births in each of the sanitary districts of the County of London for the per] 1906-10 and for the year 1911(a):— Metropolitan borough. Deaths under one year of age, 1911 (52 weeks). Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births. 1906-10. 1911. Paddington 387 103 127 Kensington 432 120 133 Hammersmith 428 118 146 Fulham 517 118 125 Chelsea 138 114 109 Westminster, City of 244 99 103 St. Marylebone 257 105 108 Hampstead 99 70 78 St. Pancras 624 108 112 Islington 1,032 107 127 Stoke Newington 107 87 102 Hackney 621 109 119 Holborn 109 114 115 Finsbury 418 134 156 London, City of 28 93 124 Shoreditch 601 149 170 Bethnal Green 610 135 151 Stepney 1,261 123 144 Poplar 787 129 157 Southwark 818 130 144 Bermondsey 609 137 156 Lambeth 897 112 123 Battersea 540 109 124 Wandsworth 823 97 122 Camberwell 696 109 109 Deptford 425 119 142 Greenwich 305 110 128 Lewisham 354 89 104 Woolwich 273 96 97 London 14,440 114 129 (a) See footnotes (b) and (c), page 2. 12532 B
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