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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE F. Birth-Rate, Death-Rate, and Analysis of Mortality During the Year 1933 (Provisional figures).
| — | Rate per 1,000 Total Population | Annual Death-rate per 1,000 Population | Rate per 1,000 Births | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes | Enteric Fever | Smallpox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Violence | Diarrhoea & Enteritis ' (under two years) | Total Deaths under one year | |||
| Live Births | Stillbirths | ||||||||||||
| England and Wales | 14,4 | 0.62 | 12.3 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.57 | 0.54 | 7.1 | 64 |
| 118 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including Eondon | 14.4 | 0.67 | 12.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.55 | 0.49 | 9.4 | 67 |
| 132 Smaller Towns (Estimated Resident Populations 25,000 -50.000 at Census 1931) | 14.5 | 0.63 | 11.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.53 | 0.44 | 4.9 | 56 |
| London | 13.2 | 0.45 | 12.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.51 | 0.58 | 11.6 | 59 |
| Lambeth | 13.6 | 0.50 | 13.1 | 0.003 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.51 | 0.39 | 12.4 | 63 |
The maternal Mortality rates are as follows:—
Puerperal Puerperal
Sepsis Others Total Sepsis Others Total
Per 1,000 Live Births, England & Wales 1.79 2.63 4.42 Per 1,000 Total Births, England & Wales 1.71 2.52 4.23
Lambeth 1.27 0.50 1.77 Lambeth 1.22 0.49 1.71