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Lambeth 1909
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1909
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BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, etc., FOR 1909.
Area of Borough—4080 statute acres (exclusive of tidal
water 82.1, and foreshore 31.1 statute acres respectively)
divided' into 6 new Registration Sub-Districts, 4
Parliamentary Divisions, and 9 new Wards. The
Parliamentary Divisions and new Wards are not coextensive,
but the new Registration Sub-Districts and
the new Wards are.
Population—estimated middle of 1909—324188 (males
153505, females 170683).
Density—79.5 persons per acre (exclusive of tidal water and
foreshore).
Inhabited Houses—41511 at Census, 1901.
Rateable Value—£1,968,216 for year ending 31st March,
1909.
Marriages—2440, being 15.0 per 1000.
Births—8445, being 26.4 per 1000.
Deaths (corrected)—4540, being 14.0 per 1000.
Infantile Mortality—830 deaths (corrected) under 1 year
being 98.3 per 1000 total uncorrected births.
Zymotic—Death-rate, 1.2 per 1000 (total deaths, 402).
Estimated' increase of Population is 2844 but the natural
increase or increment (i.e., excess of Births over deaths) is
3569 (uncorrected).