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Class VI.—Local Diseases.
1. Diseases of the Nervous System caused 398 deaths,
including 39 from Convulsions, 195 from Apoplexy, and
14 from Epilepsy.
2. 536 deaths were due to diseases of the Circulatory
System.
3. The diseases of tha Respiratory Organs caused 842
deaths (423 from Bronchitis, and 150 from Pneumonia).
4. Diseases of the Digestive Organs caused 315 deaths, of
which 89 were due to Enteritis, 12 to Peritonitis,
85 to diseases of the Liver and 21 to Dentition.
5. Diseases oj the Urinary System caused 177 deaths.
6. Diseases of the Reproductive System, Integumentary
System, Locomotive System, Lymphatics, Organs of
Special Senses, etc., caused together 94 deaths.
Class VII.—Deaths from Violence.
173 deaths in all, including 144 from Accidents, 11 from
Burns and Scalds, 11 from Drowning, 22 from Suffocation
in bed (all being infants under 1 year), 26 from Suicide, and
3 from Homicide.
Class VIII.—Other Causes.
135 deaths were registered in this class, consisting of deaths
from Dropsy, Tumours, Haemorrhages, or other ill-defined
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.