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93
Class VII.—Deaths from Violence.
174 deaths in all, including 137 from Accidents, 15 from
Burns and Scalds, 16 from Drowning, 30 from Suffocation
in bed (28 being infants under 1 year), 36 from Suicide, and
1 from Homicide.
Class VIII.—Other Causes.
175 deaths were registered in this class, consisting of
deaths from Dropsy, Tumours, Haemorrhages, or other illdefined
or non-specified causes.
Different rates of mortality from different diseases and groups
of diseases are given in terms of the total deaths (corrected and
uncorrected) in Tables T and U ; whilst Table T gives also the
deaths from the chief Infantile Diseases, expressed in terms of
the Infantile population (or number of Births). Allowing for
the slight differences between corrected and uncorrected death
returns, it will be noted that, in regard to both infantile and
other diseases, Lambeth again compares favourably with London
(vide Table U).
Deaths amongst infants under 1 year are a sensitive index
(amongst others) of the sanitary state of a Community, and in
this respect the Lambeth Borough statistics, as a whole, are
satisfactory. Table F is important, too, in this connection, as
comparing the Lambeth Borough statistics with those for
London as a whole, taken in different age-periods.