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Press reports on high
infant mortality rates:

Enfield Advertiser 15.11.2007

Waltham forest News 29.11.2007

Waltham Forest Guardian 2.8.2007

Harrow Observer 27.6.2007

Harron Observer 2.5.2007

London boroughs with highest & lowest Infant mortality rates

The table below shows the London boroughs with the highest and lowest rates of Infant Mortality in the year 2006 using Office of National Statistics data.

Borough	Live births	Infant deaths	Infant Mortality Rate per 1,000 live births
Five Boroughs with highest rates of infant mortality in London
Enfield	4543	33	7.3 [Edmonton incinerator in Borough]
Newham	5523	40	7.2 [SELCHP incinerator upwind]
Waltham Forest	4185	29	6.9 [Edmonton incinerator upwind]
Southwark	4753	32	6.7 [Denmark Hill incinerator upwind, SELCHP incinerator in adjacent Borough]
Brent	4700	31	6.6 [St Mark's Hospital incinerator in NW corner of Borough, Hillingdon Hospital incinerator upwind; Colnbrook incinerator upwind when working]
Five Boroughs with lowest rates of infant mortality in London
Kensington & Chelsea	2322	3	1.3 [no incinerator in Borough and none in an adjacent upwind Borough]
Richmond upon Thames	2767	5	1.8 ***
Barnet	4833	14	2.9 ***
Hounslow	3829	12	3.1 ***
Kingston upon Thames	2046	7	3.4 ***
*** note that some wards in these Boroughs are affected by emissions from upwind incinerators after displacement of pollution plume by Heathrow aircraft.