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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 1919
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1919
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TABLE D (1).
Shewing the corrected number of Deaths, with corrected Death-
Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1919. The deaths are from
by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting
persons (who die in Public Institutions) amongst the Districts
for treatment.
TABLE D (1).
rates (general, zymotic and diarrhoeal), in each of the Registration
all causes, and from the 7 chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected
strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing
from which they have been removed into such Public Institutions
TABLE D (1). Sub-Districts. A Registration
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Deathrate per 1000 of the Population. | Total Deaths (corrected) from | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected). | Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10000 of the Population (corrected). | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhoea. | ||||||
| Lambeth Church | 692 | 15.8 | – | 13 | – | 10 | 4 | – | 2 | – | – | 22 | 52 | 1.2 | 5.04 |
| Kennington | 786 | 17.4 | – | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 21 | 38 | 0.8 | 4.6 |
| Stockwell* | 876 | 14.8 | – | 3 | 5 | 10 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 14 | 33 | 0.5 | 2.4 |
| Brixton | 1059 | 14.4 | – | 5 | 4 | 21 | 5 | – | 1 | – | – | 14 | 50 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Norwood | 779 | 12.8 | – | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 9 | 26 | 0.4 | 1.5 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 4192 | 14.8 | – | 26 | 16 | 61 | 12 | – | 4 | – | – | 80 | 199 | 0.7 | 2.8 |
belong to the Inner and 455 to the Outer Stockwell Sub-District respectively,
(general, 16-1, zymotic, 0-9, diarrhœal, 0.42, per 1,000 population).
(general, 13-9, zymotic, 0-6, diarrhceal, 0-18, per 1,000 population).
* Of the 876 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District, 421
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates
Outer Registration Sub-Districts —death rates
have been included in Kennington Sub-District—having occurred in
Workhouse (6) respectively.
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 16 shew no addresses, and
the Workhouse Infirmary (10), and in the