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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1905

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905

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Table: TABLE D. Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the from the chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected by adding who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing persons they have been removed during illness.

TABLE D. Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the from the chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected by adding who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing persons they have been removed during illness.

Small Pox.Measles.Total Deaths (corrected) fromContinued Fever.Diarrhœa.Total Zymotic Deaths.Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected).Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Total Deaths.Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10000 of the Population.Infantile Mortality per 1000 Births (uncorrected).
Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Typhoid or Enteric.
...9...13.........7201.772.014.6120.3
...7323...2...52286.886.6
...4...27...1...14281.697.97.7212.4
...1041312.........46852.2109.411.5141.5
...123611...1...48811.5102.78.8108.5
...136615...3...12551.386.62.7206.8
...1712521...3...33911.0382.013.7105.2
...17326.........12401.0495.33.08101.5
...7......1.........19............
...96313779...10...1784311.492.85.7127.6

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death-rates have been calculated on the assumption that these
Census 1901 Return gives the area of Lambeth as 4079.6
water, and 31.1 foreshore).
the corrected birth-rate= 37.8 per 1000.
the corrected birth-rate= 32.3 per 1000.