[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.

  • Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1904
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    24/78 (page 24)
    INFANTILE MORTALITY.—The mortality amongst children under 1 year of age is wliat is known as the infantile mortality, and when the number of deaths at this age period is expressed as a rate per 1,000 of the births during the same year we have the infantile mortality rate. The number of deaths amongst children under 1 year of age was 160 ; the number of births during the year was 1,354. This gives an infantile mortality rate of 118 per 1,000 births as compared with 80 last year. The rate in England and Wales was 140. INFANTILE MORTALITY. 1304. 1003. 1902. 1901. 1900. Total number of deaths under 1 year of age 100 121 155 148 199 Total number of births registered Infantile Mortality (deaths per 1,354 1,366 1,365 1,385 1,390 1,000 births) 118 89 113 106 143 I nfantile Mortality (England and Wales) 146 132 133 151 154 Infantile Mortality (76 great towns) 160 144 145 Average Infantile Mortality in Burton for the 10 years 1894—1903 126 “ This rate of infantile mortality is regarded as a most reliable test of the sanitary condition of a district owing to the fact that migration does not greatly affect the result at this early age. If the ‘ sanitary condition ’ be regarded as including the complex conditions comprised in differences of social status this is doubtless correct *’ (Newsholme). This being so it will be well to compare the infantile mortality rate in Burton with other towns of similar size.