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Lambeth 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE H (1). Shewing the estimated populations and the number of Deaths, with Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1914. 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.
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Estimated Population (middle 1914). | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population. | Total Deaths (corrected) from | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected). | Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Total Deaths (corrected). | Diarrhoœ Death-rate per 10000 of the Population. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhœa. | ||||||||
| Lambeth Church | 46160 | 801 | 17.4 | - | 9 | 4 | 6 | 17 | - | 4 | - | - | 42 | 82 | 1.8 | 102.4 | 9.9 |
| Kennington | 47627 | 870 | 18.3 | — | 15 | 3 | 9 | 11 | - | 5 | - | - | 44 | 87 | 1.8 | 100.0 | 9.2 |
| Stockwell* | 62302 | 863 | 13.8 | — | 19 | 4 | 9 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | 43 | 80 | 1.3 | 92.4 | 6.9 |
| Brixton | 77398 | 1040 | 13.4 | — | 10 | 4 | 14 | 5 | - | 2 | - | - | 29 | 64 | 0.8 | 61.5 | 3.7 |
| Norwood | 63607 | 695 | 10.9 | — | 5 | 1 | 12 | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | 38 | 62 | 0.9 | 89.2 | 5.9 |
*Of the 863 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District,
450 belong to the Inner and 413 to the Outer Stockwell Sub-District.
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates
(general 17.1 zymotic 1.8).
Outer Registration Sub-Districts—death rates
(general 12.4, zymotic 0.9).
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 57 shew no addresses, and
the Workhouse Infirmarj -1). or in the have bee* lncluded in Kenn.ngton Sub-District-having occurred in
Work1)'" 26) respectively.