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Lambeth 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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DEATH-RATES (CORRECTED) IN METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS DURING 1907
PER 1000 PERSONS LIVING.
All Causes.
PrincipalEpidemic
Diseases.
Small-pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping-cough.
Typhus.
Enteric Fever.
Pyrexiat (Origin
uncertain).
Diarrhoea.
Phthisis.
Deaths under i
year to 1000
Births.
COUNTY OF LONDON
14.6
1.42
¯
038
0.14
0.16
0.38
¯
o.o4
0.00
0.32
1*40
116
Wist.
Haddington
13.5
1.13
0.25
o.o9
0.13
0.35
¯
0.03
¯
0.28
1.09
109
Kensington
13.7
1.04
0.17
0.05
0.13
0.45
¯
0.03
¯
0.21
1.03
128
Hammersmith
14.3
1.16
¯
0.44
0.08
0.15
0.27
¯
0.05
¯
0.17
1.20
117
Fulham
13.2
1.73
¯
0.42
o.08
0.23
0.45
¯
0.05

0.50
1.19
122
Chelsea
15.0
1.44
¯
0.56
0.03
0.09
0.33
¯
0.04
¯
0.50
1.19
122
City of Westminster
13.0
0.72

0.11
0.07
o.lo
0.15

0.05

0.24
1.37
102
North.
St. Marylebone
15.0
o.97
¯
o.14
0.15
0.12
0.35
¯
0.02
¯
0.19
1.48
101
Hampstead
9.0
0.51
o.13
0.06
0.08
0.13
¯
0.02
¯
0.19
0.70
69
St. Pancras
15.0
1.17
¯
0.37
0.11
0.13
0.33
¯
0.02
¯
0.21
1.66
108
Islington
14.7
1.25
¯
0.38
0. 06
0.12
0.33
¯
0.04

0.29
1.32
116
Stoke Newington
11.5
0.02
¯
0.13
0.19
0.13
0.36
¯
0.06
000
0.15
0.94
100
Hackney
13.6
0.37
¯
0.26
0.19
0.20
0.29
¯
o.o9
¯
0.34
1.17
112
Central.
Holborn
17.4
1.28

0.22
0.04
0.18
0.51

O.O4

0.29
2.58
131
Finsbury
18.7
1.83

0.51
0.l8
0.17
0.54

0.02

0.41
2.33
130
City of London
16.8
0.85

0.05
0.05
0.25
0.35

0.10

0.05
2.02
94
East.
Shoreditch
20.5
30.1

1.03
0.24
0.17
0.88

o.o5

0.64
2.10
150
Bethnal Green
175
1.96

0.54
0.33
0.14
o.46

0.05

0.44
1.90
138
Stepney
15.9
1.97

0. 50
0.27
0.30
0.33

0.07

0.50
1.56
117
Poplar
16.9
2.11

0.56
0.26
0.29
0.48

0.06

0.46
1.33
124
South.
Southwark
18.0
1.90

0.54
0.17
0.17
0.49

o.o5

0.48
2.03
138
Bermondsey
18.3
1.71

0.41
0.28
o. 16
o.43

o.o5

0.38
123
Lambeth
14.6
1.28

0.34
0.l3
0.15
o.35

0.02

0.29
1.53
120
Battersea
13.3
1.34

0.38
0.10
0.21
0.38

0.02

0.25
1.25
114
Wandsworth
12.3
1.16

0.23
o.o9
0.14
o.4o

0.o4

0.26
o.95
99
Camberwell
1.39
1.43

0.44
o.13
0.14
0.43

o.o3

0.26
1.31
115
Deptford
14.1
1.47

0.46
o.l2
0.22
0.32

0.05
o.01
0.29
1.34
108
Greenwich
12.7
1.44

0.54
o.o9
0.17
0.24

0.05

0.35
1.08
100
Lewisham
11.5
0.85

0.11
0.08
0.12
0.34

0.01

0.19
o.93
90
Woolwich
12.5
1.38

0.56
0.11
0.12
0.29

o.o3
0.01
0.26
1. 25
112
N.B.—o'oo indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0 005 ; where no death occurred, — is inserted.
†Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.
The above table is taken from the Registrar General's Annual Summary, and the rates for Lambeth Borough differ slightly from those
given in this Report.