Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE D. TABLE D.
Shewing the corrected number of Deaths, with corrected Death- rates (general, zymotic and diarrhœal), in each of the Registration
Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1925. The deaths are from all 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.
REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Total Deaths (corrected) from | Cholera. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000 of the Population (corrected). | Diarrhoea Death rate per 10,000 of the Population (corrected). | ||||
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Diphtheria and *Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | |||||||||||
Lambeth Church | 643 | 14.5 | — | 1 | 3 | 26 | 9 | — | 1† | — | — | IO | 50 | 1.1 | 2.2 |
Kennington | 669 | 14.9 | — | — | 2 | I I | 14 | — | 1† | — | — | 6 | 34 | 0.7 | 1.3 |
Stockwellg | 765 | 11.6 | — | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | — | 2 | — | — | 5 | 14 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
Brixton | 957 | 11.2 | — | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 27 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
Norwood | 730 | 10.4 | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | — | — | — | — | 7 | 19 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
Borough of Lambeth | 3764 | 12.1 | — | 5 | 9 | 55 | 48 | — | 4 | — | — | 33 | 154 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
*No death registered from membranous croup. †Cases of Paratyphoid Fever.
§Of the 765 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District, 362 belong to the Inner and 403 to the outer Stockwell Sub-District respectively.
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general, 13.7, zymotic, 0.8, diarrhœal, 0.2 per 1,000 population).
Outer Registration Sub-Districts—death rates general, 11.06 zymotic, 0.3 diarrhœal, 0.06, per 1000 population).