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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 1918
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1918
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TABLE D (1). TABLE D (1). Shewing the corrected number of Deaths, with corrected Death- rates (general, zymotic and diarrhceal), in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1918. The deaths are from a11 causes,and from the 7 chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing persons (who die in Public Institutions) amongst the Districts from which they have been removed into such Public Institutions for treatment.
| A Registration | Sub-Districts. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Total Deaths (corrected)-. | General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. * | Total Deaths (corrccted) from | |||||||||
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. j | Diarrhcea. | Total Zymotic Deaths | Zymotic Death-rate p< 1000 of the Populatio (corrected). | Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10000 of the Population (corrected) | ||||||
| Lambeth Church | 800 | 198 | — | 27 | 2 | 9 | 20 | — | 1 | — | — | 20 | 79 | 1.9 | 4.9 |
| Kennington | 1036 | 247 | — | 33 | 5 | 7 | 13 | — | 1 | — | — | 11 | 70 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| Stockwell1 | 1037 | 189 | — | 32 | 1 | 9 | 19 | — | 1 | — | — | 12 | 74 | 1.3 | 2.2 |
| Brixton | 1215 | 17 .7 | — | 25 | 3 | 13 | 26 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 10 | 79 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| Norwood | 860 | 14.1 | — | 10 | — | 7 | 7 | — | 1 | — | — | 7 | 32 | 0. 5 | 1.2 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 4948 | 18.9 | — | 127 | 11 | 45 | 85 | — | 5 | 1 | - | 60 | 334 | 1.3 | 2.3 |
*Of the 1037 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District, 538 belong to the Inner and 499 to the Outer Stockwell Sub-District respectively.
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general, 21.8, zymotic, 1.9, diarrhceal, 0 .39, per 1,000 population).
Outer Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general, 16.8, zymotic, 0.9, diarrhceal, 0.12, per 1,000 population).
N.I3.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 64 shew no addresses, and have been include'd in Kennington Sub-District—having occurred in
the Workhouse Infirmary (35), and in the Workhouse (29) respectively.