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Lambeth 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE D. TABLE D.
rates (general, zymotic and diarrhœal), in each of the Registration
Shewing the corrected number of Deaths, with corrected Deathall causes, and from the 7 chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected
Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1923. The deaths are from strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing
by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting from which they have been removed into such Public Institutions
persons (who die in Public Institutions) amongst the Districts
for treatment.
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population. | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000 of the Population (corrected). | Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10,000 of the Population (corrected). | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and *Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | |||||||||||
| Typhus. | †Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | {Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | |||||||||||
| Lambeth Church | 584 | 12.8 | - | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | — | 1 | — | 11 | 29 | 0.6 | 2.4 | |
| Kennington | 626 | 13.9 | - | 4 | 3 | 14 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 13 | 36 | 0.8 | 2.9 |
| Stockwell§ | 669 | 10.3 | - | 6 | | 8 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 14 | 31 | 0.5 | 2.1 |
| Brixton | 905 | 10.8 | - | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 25 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| Norwood | 698 | 10.06 | — | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 20 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 3482 | 11.3 | — | 21 | 11 | 48 | 14 | 1 | — | — | 46 | 141 | 0.4 | 1.4 | |
a death from paratyphoid fever.
* No death registered from membranous croup. †This was
chargeable to Lambeth Borough, but who had been inmates of such
♦ Including four deaths from dysentery of Asylum patients who are notified as Lambeth cases.
Asylums for many years past. These 4 cases of dysentery were not
to the Inner and 301 to the Outer Stockwell Sub-District respectively.
§ Of the 669 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District, 368 belong
(general, 12.8, zymotic, 0.7, diarrhoeal, 0.2, per 1,000 population).
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates
(general, 10.2, zymotic, 0.2, diarrhoeal, 0.0, per 1,000 population).
Outer Registration Sub-Districts—death rates