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Lambeth 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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The uncorrected death-rate for Lambeth is, therefore, 15.5 per
1000 inhabitants (16.3 for males and 14.8 for females), as compared
with 15.2 for London (16.5 for males and 13.9 for females).
These rates are, however, uncorrected, and, on analysing the
4926 deaths registered in the Borough of Lambeth, it is found
that 748 represent deaths occurring within the Borough amongst
persons not belonging thereto. These deaths are to be deducted,
but, on the other hand, there are 474 deaths registered outside the
Borough of persons belonging thereto, and these must be added,
giving a corrected number of deaths for Lambeth during 1907, of
4652, and a corrected death-rate of 14 6 per 1000 inhabitants, as
compared with 15.1 for London (the total corrected number of
London deaths being 69268).
The outside Institutions, &c., where the 474 Lambethians died during 1907, may be grouped as follows:—
| I. General Hospitals. Charing Cross | 22 | Cheyne, Chelsea | 1 |
| Guy's | 38 | Alexandra, Holborn | 1 |
| King's | 9 | French | 2 |
| London | 2 | German | 2 |
| Middlesex | 8 | Queen Charlotte's | 1 |
| Royal Free | 2 | Children's, Paddington | 1 |
| St. Bartholomew's | 11 | East London | 1 |
| St. George's | 3 | Great Northern | 1 |
| University | 5 | Seaman's, Greenwich | 1 |
| Westminster | 40 | ||
| II. Special Hospitals. | |||
| Bolingbroke | 4 | Evelina | 11 |
| Brompton | 6 | Grosvenor Hospital | 5 |
| Cancer | 2 | Gt. Ormond Street | 5 |
| Central London Sick | 3 | Heart Hospital, Soho | 2 |
| Homæpathic | 1 | ||