════════════════════════════════╤═══════════╤═════════╤══════╤═════════ │ │ │Deaths│ │ │ │during│ │ │ │first │ │Population,│ Total │ year │ Infant SECTION OF CITY AND WARD. │ 1910.[12] │live-born│ of │mortality │ │ babies. │babies│ rate. │ │ │ born │ │ │ │ in │ │ │ │ 1911 │ ────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼─────────┼──────┼───────── The whole city │ 55,482│ 1,463│ 196│ 134.6 ════════════════════════════════╪═══════════╪═════════╪══════╪═════════ Down-town section (wards 1, 2, │ 5,944│ 80│ 4│ 52.0 3, 4) │ │ │ │ Kernville (wards 5, 6) │ 6,070│ 104│ 6│ 57.7 Homerstown (ward 7) │ 4,476│ 109│ 17│ 156.0 Roxbury (ward 8) │ 2,862│ 85│ 19│ 117.6 Conemaugh Borough (wards 9, 10) │ 5,282│ 136│ 16│ 117.6 Woodvale (ward 11) │ 3,945│ 107│ 20│ 271.0 Prospect (ward 12) │ 1,893│ 55│ 11│ 200.9 Peelorville (ward 13) │ 1,443│ 13│ 4│ ([13]) Minersville (ward 14) │ 2,403│ 72│ 9│ 125.0 Cambria City (wards 15, 16) │ 8,706│ 310│ 55│ 177.4 Moxham (ward 17) │ 5,735│ 157│ 14│ 39.2 Morrellville (wards 18, 19, 20) │ 5,757│ 194│ 15│ 32.5 Coopersdale (ward 21) │ 968│ 36│ 8│ ([13]) ────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴─────────┴──────┴───────── Footnote 12: Federal census of 1910. Footnote 13: Total live births less than 50; base therefore considered too small to use in computing an infant mortality rate. To learn where the babies die is perhaps the first step in solving the infant mortality problem. The modern health officer recognizes this and generally has in his office a wall map upon which are indicated sections, wards, city blocks, and sometimes even houses. As infant deaths are reported, pins are stuck in the map in the proper places, a density of pins on any part of the map indicating, of course, where deaths are most numerous, although the percentage of infant deaths may not be the highest. The highest infant mortality rate, 271, is found in the eleventh ward, known as Woodvale, although this is neither the most populous ward nor the one having the largest number of births. The infant mortality rate here, however, is double the rate for the city as a whole and more than five times as great as it is for the most favorable ward.