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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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Table: TABLE F.—continued. B.—Deaths (corrected) of Infants under One Year of age from the chief infantile diseases, and from all causes, expressed in terms of 1000 births (corrected).

TABLE F.—continued. B.—Deaths (corrected) of Infants under One Year of age from the chief infantile diseases, and from all causes, expressed in terms of 1000 births (corrected).

Borough 1914.Borough 1915.
Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected)Proportion to 1000 Births (Corrected).*Total Deaths under One Year (Corrected).Proportion to 1000 Births (Corrected).*
From all causes728103.5683103.9
Diarrhæa15622.28713.2
Convulsions131.8111.7
Respiratory Diseases12517.815423.4
Premature Births12317.510816.4
Tubercular Diseases (including Phthisis)223.1213.2
Measles162.3192.9
Whooping Cough172.4253.8
Suffocation in Bed111.6111.7
Enteritis40.6111.7
Dentition70.981.2

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*N.B.—The Registrar-General gives the corrected Lambeth births for 1914 and 1915 as 7032 and 6573 respectively, and
these corrected figures have been used in calculating the above rates.