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Summary.
I. General Hospitals 143
II. Special and Fever Hospitals 98
III. Infirmaries and Workhouses 24
IV. Asvlums 164
V. Elsewhere (unclassifiable) 30
459
Whether the corrected or uncorrected death-rates for the
Borough of Lambeth (as a whole) be taken, they are very satisfactory
for the year 1903, the third year of existence of the
newly-formed Borough. Sub-dividing the death-rates amongst
the several Registration Sub-Districts, it will be again noted that
the Inner Districts, e.g., Waterloo, Lambeth Church 1st and 2nd,
have, collectively and individually, suffered more than the Outer
Districts, e.g., Kennington 1st and 2nd, Brixton and Norwood.
So, too, if the death-rates be sub-divided amongst the 9 new
Wards, it will also be noted that the Inner Wards, e.g., Marsh,
Bishop's, Prince's, and Vauxhall, have, collectively and individually,
suffered more than the Outer Wards, e.g., Stockwell
Brixton, Herne Hill, Tulse Hill and Norwood..
The Inner Districts and Wards are more congested than the
Outer, and as a general law it is found that the more congested a
district (houses over area), the higher the mortality, and the
greater the morbidity. The status of the inhabitants, and the
general conditions (sanitary and otherwise) under which they live,
are matters to bear in mind when dealing with this difference in.
death-and sickness-rates in the Inner as compared with the
Outer Districts and Wards of the Borough of Lambeth. Noefforts
must be spared to lessen this difference (as it is practically
impossible to obliterate it), and this can be best done (as I have
often pointed out) by seeing that the crowded Inner Districts
are kept in good sanitary condition by means of constant and