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Lambeth 1915
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1915
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there was registered a total of 448 deaths from these diseases—150
strangers belonging to other districts and 294 parishioners who died
within the Borough ; whilst, in addition, 37 parishioners died from
these diseases outside the Borough. Subtracting the strangers and
adding in the parishioners who died outside the Borough, there is a
corrected total of 335, giving a zymotic death-rate (corrected) of 1.2
per 1,000 inhabitants. As in the case of the general death-rates,
the zvmotic death-rates vary in the inner and outer districts, viz.,
1.9 as compared with 0.7 per 1,000 population respectively (vide
Tables D (1) and D (2)).
The different rates of mortality from different diseases and
groups of diseases during 1914 and 1915 are given in terms of the
total deaths (corrected and uncorrected) in Tables F and G, whilst
Table F gives also the deaths from the chief infantile diseases-, expressed
in terms of the infantile population (i.e., corrected number
of births registered). The tuberculosis corrected death-rate for
1915 is 1.8, i.e., 518 deaths from all forms of tuberculosis per 1,000
population, and the consumption (phthisis) death-rate, 1.5, i.e.,
413 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption (phthisis)
per 1,000 population.
The details of the deaths in the various Registration Sub-Districts are :—
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Corrected Deaths from | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pul. Tub.or Phthisis (consumpt'n) | Other Forms Tuberculosis. | Total Deaths Tuberculosis (all forms) | Phthisis-rate per 1,000 population. | Tuberculosis rate per 1,000 population. | |
| Lambeth Church | 85 | 26 | 111 | 1.9 | 2.5 |
| Kennington | 92 | 19 | 111 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| Stockwell | 87 | 25 | 112 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Brixton | 92 | 25 | 117 | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Norwood | 57 | 10 | 67 | 0.9 | 1.1 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 413 | 105 | 518 | *1.5 | †l.8 |
Rates for Inner Districts 1.9* and 2.4†.
Rates for Outer Districts l.2*and 1.4†.
During the five quinquennia 1891-1895 (Parish), 1896-1900
(Parish), 1901-1905 (Borough), 1906-1910 (Borough), and 1911-1915
(Borough), the yearly averages of deaths from (a) tuberculosis (all
forms) and (b) pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption (phthisis)
were respectively (a) 675.0, 690.0, 647.4, 567.4 and 500.0, and (b)
478.8, 496.8, 462.8, 421.6 and 386.8.