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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 1916

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1916

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Table: In the Registration Sub-Districts, the uncorrected infantile mortality varied from 154'8 per 1,000 births in Kennington to 54'2 in Stockwell (the low rates of 88.6 in Lambeth Church, 154.8 in Kennington, and 54.2 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—

In the Registration Sub-Districts, the uncorrected infantile mortality varied from 154'8 per 1,000 births in Kennington to 54'2 in Stockwell (the low rates of 88.6 in Lambeth Church, 154.8 in Kennington, and 54.2 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) 1916.Total Deaths under 1 year (uncorrected). 1916.Infantile Mortality per 1000 births (uncorrected). 1916.
Lambeth Church*223519888.6*
Kenningtont1072166154.8†
Stockwell‡213811654.2‡
Brixton1498195130.2
Norwood103710298.4
Lambeth798077797.4

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§ Inner Districts —96.4, Outer Districts —98.5.
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.
The total number of deaths registered from these diseases is
342 —126 strangers belonging to other districts and 210 parishioners
who died within the Borough ; whilst, in addition, 32 parishioners
'Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births, the rate is 137.2
†Excluding all the Workhouse births, the rate is 185.5.
†Excluding all the. Workhouse births,the rate is 118.5.
all the Maternity Hospital births, the rate is 93.7.
§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.