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Lambeth 1903

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1903

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Table: TABLE D. Shewing the number of Births and Deaths, with Birth- and Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1903. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the chief Zymotic Diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing persons (who die in Public Institutions) into the Districts from which they have been removed during illness.

TABLE D. Shewing the number of Births and Deaths, with Birth- and Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1903. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the chief Zymotic Diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing persons (who die in Public Institutions) into the Districts from which they have been removed during illness.

REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS.Persons per Acre.Estimated Population (middle 1903).Total Births (uncorrected).Birth-rate per 1ooo of the Population.Total Deaths (corrected).General corrected Death-rate per 1ooo of the Population.Total Deaths (corrected) fromTotal Zymotic Deaths.Zymotic Death-rate per 1ooo of the Population (corrected).Zymotic Death-rate per 1ooo of the Total Deaths.Diarrhœa Death-rate per 10000 of the Population.Infantile Mortality per 1000 Births (uncorrected).
Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Typhoid or Enteric.Continued Fever.Diarrhœa.
Waterloo Road 1st156.52693943649.9*26820.5...10127...2...8301.888.74.5101.9
„ „ 2nd909255...53...6.........418
Lambeth Church 1st114.41838656330.633018.8...93114.........17442.4129.19.2266.4
„ „ 2nd218.439858150937.9†79720.42286733...4...461263.2155.811.5153.8
Kennington 1st109.953907178833.278814.91431430...2...17981.8121.53.2110.7
„ 2nd82.84377399422.760314.1110456...4...19491.180.14.1126.8
Brixton64.687069206023.7110612.9...18510179132921.183.43.7124.8
Norwood31.63777981029.439910.9...4......12...3...18370.990.64.8116.05
District not stated............118......3......1............4............
Borough of Lambeth75.4307711906929.5466415.241302329126...2411614981.6106.85.2131.7

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death-rates have been calculated on the assumption that these
N.B.—In the 118 cases where the District is not stated, the Census 1901 Return gives the area of Lambeth as 4079.6
deaths were sub-divided equally in the eight Districts. water, and 31.1 foreshore).
statute acres (exclusive of 82.1 tidal water, 0.8 inland
he corrected rate = 31.4 per 1000.
* Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births he corrected rate = 32.9 per 1000.
†Excluding all the Workhouse births