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Lambeth 1913

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

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Table: TABLE H (2). TABLE H (2).Shewing the estimated populations and the number of Deaths, with Death-rates, in each of the Wards of the Borough during 1913. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the 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) into the Districts from which they have been removed during illness.B. Wards. B. Wards.

TABLE H (2). TABLE H (2).

Shewing the estimated populations and the number of Deaths, with Death-rates, in each of the Wards of the Borough during 1913. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the 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) into the Districts from which they have been removed during illness.

B. Wards. B. Wards.

WARDS.Estimated Population (middle 1913).Total Deaths (corrected).General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population.Small Pox. L .TotalDeaths (corrected) fromTotal Zymotic Deaths.Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected).Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Total Deaths (corrected).Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10000 of the Population.
Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and -Membranous CroupWhooping Cough.Typhus.Typhoid or Enteric.Continued Fever.Cholera.Diarrhœa.
Marsh2107937417.7..19...34............23492.3131.010.9
Bishop’s3106550416.2...20266............397323144.812.6
Prince’s4175286520.7...242711............37811.993.68'8
Vauxhall3042650316.5...19178...2......19541.9107.46.2
Stocksvell3188937711.8...3352............7220758.42.2
Brixton4420756212.7...8115...3......10280.649.82.3
Heme Hill3315639111.8...14...6...1......12240.761.43.6
Tulse Hill3121133510.7...2...22............10170.550.73.2
Norwood3233636911.4...2163...1......9210.656 .92.8
Borough of Lambeth297139428014.4...98143747...7......1663691.286.25.6

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Inner Wards—death rates (general, 18.l; zymotic, 2.1).
N.B.— Of the total deaths (corrected), 42 show no addresses and
occurred in the Workhouse Infirmary (26) or in the Workhouse
Outer Wards—death rates (general, 11-8 ; zymotic, 07).
have been included in Bishop’s and Prince’s Wards, having
(16) respectively.