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In the Inner Registration Sub-Districts, the Diarrhœa deathrate
per 10,000 inhabitants was 8.8 as compared with 3.8 for the
Outer Districts i.e., 2 to 1. The Inner Districts of the Borough
during 1903 have pro ratâ suffered less from Diarrhœa than the
Inner Districts of the Old Parish during previous years.
It will be noted that the 4-foot earth temperature had a very
low register during 1903, and, as a natural consequence, the
Diarrhœa deaths were very few in number.
Under the heading of Diarrhœa may be classed the 1 death of
Cholera registered, as there is no reason to regard it otherwise
than as a death from "Summer Diarrhœa"; and also the 65
deaths registered from "Enteritis," which represent a decrease
that is pro rata with the increase in the number of "Diarrhœa"
deaths, and is due to more exact nomenclature. The yearly
average number of deaths from Enteritis in the old Parish of
Lambeth for the 10 years 1891-1900 is 101.8.
Comparison must be made with the corrected infantile
mortality rate for the Borough, which is 125 per 1,000 births
(vide p. 29).
The female Inspector has visited every house wherein a death
has taken place from diarrhœa, with the result that valuable
statistics are being tabulated in connection therewith, and from
these statistics (when in sufficient numbers) important deductions
may be able, hereafter, to be drawn.