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In the Inner New Registration Sub-Districts, the Diarrhœa
death rate per 10000 inhabitants was 5.8 as compared with
2.02 for the Outer Districts, i.e., 2.9 to 1—a condition of
things which is generally found to obtain, and which is
readily understood when the crowded state of the Inner Districts
is remembered.
It may be noted that the 4-ft. earth temperature had a low
register during 1909, and, as a natural consequence, the
Diarrhæa deaths were diminished in numbers.
57 deaths were registered during 1909 from "Enteritis."
The yearly average number of deaths from Enteritis in the
old Parish of Lambeth for 10 years, 1891-1900, is 101.S.
During recent years there has been a marked improvement
in the diagnosis of deaths from diarrhæal diseases, so that,
to obtain comparable figures, attention should be paid not
only to diarrhæa deaths certified, but also to all deaths
arising from diseases of an enteritic nature, i.e., those in
which the intestines are affected.
Comparison must be made with the corrected infantile
mortality rate for the Borough, which is 98.3 per 1000
births (vide p. 29).
The female Inspectors have visited every house wherein
a death has been registered as having taken place from
Diarrhæa, 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.