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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 1915
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1915
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added. Taking the uncorrected births and the corrected deaths
under 1 year, the infantile mortality rate is 86.7, the annual
average for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough), being 114.8.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (7878), and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (851), the uncorrected
infantile mortality is 108. the annual average
for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough) being 123'8, and that for the
decennium 1891-1900 (Parish) 1505. The chief causes of these
deaths under 1 year are debility, atrophy, and inanition, congenital
malformations, measles, whooping-cough, bronchitis, and
other diseases of the respiratory organs, diarrhoea, and prematurity.
In the Registration Sub-Districts, the uncorrected infantile mortality varied from 172 per 1,000 births in Brixton to 64.8 in Stockwell (the low rates of 918 in Lambeth Church, 132.3 in Kennington, and 64 8 in Stockwell,being due to the fact that these Sub-Districts contain the General Lying-in Hospital, the Workhouse and the Maternity Hospital respectively), thus—
| Total No. of Births (uncorrected) 1915. | Total Deaths under 1 year (uncorrected). 1915. | Infantile Mortality per 1000 births (uncorrected). 1915. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambeth Church* | 2406 | 221 | 91.8 |
| Kennington | 1058 | 140 | 132.3 |
| Stockwell | 1913 | 124 | 64.8 |
| Brixton | 1453 | 260 | 172.0 |
| Norwood | 1048 | 106 | 101.1 |
| Lambeth | 7878 | 851 | 108.0 |
Inner Districts—95.7, Outer Districts—123.8.
3.—Zymotic Death-Rates.
The zymotic death rate is made up of the total deaths from the
seven principal zymotic diseases, viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup) whooping cough,
"fever" (including typhus, typhoid or enteric and simple continued
or ill-defined) and diarrhoea. In the Borough during 1915
*Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births, the rate is 118.6
† Excluding all the Workhouse births, the rate is 148.8.
‡Excluding all the Maternity Hospital births, the rate is 87.9.
N.B.—The births and deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-Districts are
divided equally between the Inner and Outer Districts for the purpose of
calculating infantile mortality rates for such Districts in this Table.