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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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TABLE W. TABLE W. Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year 1909, in the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth, classified according to Diseases and Localities.
| New Registration Sub-Districts. | Population at all Ages. | Registered Births 1909. | New Cases of Sickness in each the knowledge of the Medical during | Locality, coming to Officer of Health 1909. | Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital during 1909. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census 1901. | Estimated to middle of 1909. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. | Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Epysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. | |||||||||||
| Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued. | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | ||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Waterloo | 27440 | 25921 | 1484 | - | 58 | 30 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 21 | 3 | - | 56 | 30 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 2 |
| Lambeth Church | 27440* | 26541 | 721 | - | 162 | 30 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 28 | 2 | - | 160 | 30 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 13 | 2 |
| Kennington | 52518* | 55061 | 1501 | - | 248 | 79 | 2 | - | 9 | - | - | 3 | - | 43 | 3 | - | 245 | 74 | 1 | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | 17 | 2 |
| Stockwell | 63826 | 67779 | 1939 | - | 251 | 68 | - | - | 11 | - | - | 5 | - | 41 | 2 | - | 232 | 67 | - | - | 9 | - | - | 3 | - | 12 | 1 |
| Brixton | 73673 | 82337 | 1601 | - | 276 | 97 | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 34 | 1 | - | 250 | 88 | - | - | 5 | - | - | 2 | - | 6 | - |
| Norwood | 56998 | 66549 | 1199 | - | 169 | 69 | 1 | - | 12 | - | - | 5 | - | 22 | 3 | - | 145 | 57 | 1 | - | 9 | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | 3 |
| Totals | 301895 | 324188 | 8445 | - | 1164 | 373 | 3 | - | 49 | 1 | - | 16 | - | 189 | 14 | - | 1088 | 346 | 2 | - | 40 | - | - | 7 | - | 61 | 10 |
*The Census 1901 populations for Lambeth Church and Kennington New Sub-Districts are approximate only.