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Lambeth 1904
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1904
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BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR, 1904.
Area of Borough—4080.4 statute acres (exclusive of tidal water
82.1, and foreshore 31.1 statute acres respectively) divided
into 7 Registration Sub-Districts, 4 Parliamentary Divisions,
and 9 new Wards. The Parliamentary Divisions and New
Wards are not co-extensive.
Population—estimated middle of 1904—310,359 (males 146,868,
females, 163,491).
Density—76 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses—41,511 at Census, 1901.
Rateable Value—£1,907,908 for year ending March 31st,
1904.
Marriages—2,480, being 15.9 per 1,000.
Births—9,059, being 29.2 per 1,000.
Deaths (corrected)—4,880, being 15.7 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality—1,248 deaths (corrected) under 1 year,
being 137.8 per 1,000 births.
Zymotic—Death-Rate, 1.9 per 1,000 (total deaths, 603).
Estimated increase of Population 2,648, but the natural
increase or increment (i.e., excess of Births over Deaths) is
3,901 (uncorrected).