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Quinqueunial
Period.
Population
(estimated).
Number of
Deaths.
Death-Rate per
million living.
Old Parish of
Boro'
Lambeth.
1863—1867 902119 148 164
1868—1872 1021165 96 94
1873—1877 1132106 184 163
1878—1882 1245913 255 205
1883—1887 1313211 365 278
1888—1892 1367734 537 393
1893—1897 1443857 683 483
1998—1900 924333 362 392
1901 302533 47 155
1902 305102 49 160
1903 307711 2 91
in the prevalence of Diphtheria throughout the Borough of
Lambeth during 1903, as well as during 1902 and 1901, and
that, too, although Diphtheria has been rising slowly but surely in
epidemic proportions for the last 20 years. The statistics for
London, as a whole, are no less remarkable.
The age and sex incidence and mortality from Diphtheria
cases notified in the Borough of Lambeth during 1908 are as
follow :—