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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1903
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1903
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Parish of Lambeth for the 10 years 1891-1900. Of the total
4853 deaths, 2153 were males and 2400 females, showing an
excess of 53 males.
The death-rate for Lambeth is, therefore, 15.8 per 1,000 inhabitants
(16.9 for males and 14.8 for females), as compared with
15.6 for London (17.2 for males and 14.2 for females). These
rates are, however, uncorrected, and, on analysing the 4853
deaths registered in the Borough of Lambeth, it is found that 648
represent deaths occurring within the Borough amongst
persons not belonging thereto. These deaths are to be deducted,
but, oil the other hand, there are 459 deaths registered outside the
Borough of persons belonging thereto, and these must be added,
giving a corrected number of deaths for Lambeth during 1903 of
4,664, and a corrected death-rate of 15.2 per 1000 inhabitants, as
compared with 15.2 for London (the total corrected number of
London deaths beine 69737)
The outside Institutions, &c., where 459 Lambethians died during 1903, may be grouped as follows :—
| I. General Hospitals | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Charing Cross | 12 | Middlesex | 1 |
| French | 3 | Royal Free | 1 |
| Guy's | 25 | St. Bartholomew's | 14 |
| Hostel of God | 8 | St. George's | 4 |
| King's | 16 | University | 3 |
| London | 2 | Westminster | 54 |
| II. Special Hospitals | |||
| Bolingbroke Hospital | 1 | Hospital of St. John | 1 |
| Brompton | 8 | London Throat | 1 |
| Cancer | 5 | Mount Vernon Con | |
| Central London Sick | 2 | sumption | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, | National Hospital | 1 | |
| Paddington | 1 | Royal Chest | 3 |
| Evelina | 23 | St. Mary's | 1 |