[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Hampton Wick Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Hampton Wick (England). Local Board.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Hampton Wick Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Seven deaths occurred in infants under one year of age, and if these be added to the number of deaths occurring in persons over 65 years of age, it will be seen that such deaths account for half the total number. No death occurred from Phthisis or other tuber- culous disease. INFANTILE MOETALITY. The number of deaths of infants under one year of age belonging to the district during the year was seven, which is in the proportion of .184 to every 1,000 births. This is by far the highest infantile death rate which has been registered during the past 10 years. Infantile death rates, however, have very little value taken by them- selves in a population so small as that of Hampton Wick as very few births are registered during the year. On three separate occasions during the last ten years only one death of an infant has been registered, so that the mortality for different years varies very greatly. Thus, in the year 1899 we have an infantile mortality of 20 per 1,000 as against one of 184 per 1,000 in the year 1907. One or two extra deaths make an enormous differ- ence in the infantile death rate of so small a population. The average infantile mortality for the last ten years is 84 per 1,000 births registered. This compares well with other places as is shown in the following table : — 1906 1907 England and Wales... 133 118 London 131 115 76 Great Towns 145 176 County of Middlesex 121 Hampton Wick 25 184 Hampton Wick, average for preceding 10 years 91 84