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Lambeth 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE H (2). Shewing the estimated populations and the number of Deaths, with Death.rates, in each of the Wards of the Borough during 1914. The deaths are from all causes, and from the chief zymoti disease and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting strangers who die within the Borough, and by distributing persons (who die in Public Institutions) into the Districts from which they have been removed during illness.
| WARDS. | Estimated Population (middle 1914). | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Death. rate per 1000 of the Population | Totals 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). | Diarrhœa Death.rate per 10,000 of the Population. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhœa. | ||||||||
| Marsh | 21034 | 185 | 18.8 | — | 6 | 1 | 3 | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | 21 | 38 | 1.8 | 205.4 | 9.9 |
| Bishop's | 31053 | 616 | 19.8 | — | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | - | 3 | - | - | 21 | 44 | 1.4 | 71.4 | 6.8 |
| Prince's | 41697 | 870 | 20.8 | — | 15 | 3 | 9 | 11 | - | 5 | - | - | 44 | 87 | 2.1 | 100.0 | 10.6 |
| Vauxhall | 30418 | 450 | 14.8 | — | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 29 | 52 | 1.7 | 115.6 | 9.5 |
| Stockwell | 31885 | 413 | 12.6 | — | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 14 | 28 | 0.8 | 67.8 | 4.4 |
| Brixton | 44214 | 618 | 13.9 | — | 5 | 2 | 10 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | 15 | 38 | 0.9 | 61.5 | 3.4 |
| Herne Hill | 33185 | 422 | 12.7 | — | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | — | - | - | 14 | 26 | 0.8 | 61.6 | 4.2 |
| Tulse Hill | 31244 | 281 | 8.9 | — | 4 | — | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | — | - | 17 | 28 | 0.9 | 99.6 | 5.4 |
| Norwood | 32364 | 414 | 12.8 | — | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 21 | 34 | 1.04 | 82.1 | 6.5 |
Inner Wards—death rates (general, 17.1; zymotic, 18). Outer Wards—death rates (general, 12'4; zymotic, 0'9).
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 57 show no addresses, and have been included in Bishop's and Prince's Wards, having
occurred in the Workhouse Infirmary (31) or in the Workhouse (26) respectively.
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