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Lambeth 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE D (1). TABLE D (1).
Shewing the corrected number of Deaths, with corrected Death- rates (general, zymotic and diarrhoeal), in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough during 1917. The deaths are from all causes, and from the 7 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) amongst the Districts from which they have been removed into such Public Institutions for treatment.
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Total Deaths (corrected) from | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected). | Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10000 of the Population (corrected). | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria and Membranous Crouh. | ..... Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. j | ||||||||||
| Lambeth Church | 748 | 17.8 | — | 41 | — | 11 | 8 | — | — | — | 19 | 79 | 19 | 4.5 | |
| Kennington | 857 | 19.7 | — | 21 | 1 | 8 | 7 | — | 1 | — | — | 22 | 60 | 14 | 5.1 |
| Stockwell1 | 821 | 14.4 | — | 22 | 1 | 7 | — | 1 | — | — | 20 | 61 | 1.1 | 3.5 | |
| Brixton | 1007 | 14 2 | — | 9 | 4 | 8 | — | — | 1 | — | 22 | 51 | 0.7 | 3.1 | |
| Norwood | 735 | 12.5 | — | 15 | — | 12 | 8 | — | 1 | — | — | 8 | 44 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 4168 | 15.3 | 108 | 6 | 48 | 38 | — | 3 | 1 | 91 | 295 | 1.1 | 3.3 | ||
*Of the 821 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District, 400 belong to the Inner and 421 to the Outer Stockwell Sub-District respectively.
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general, 17 .7, zymotic, 1.5, diarrhoeal, 0. 5, per 1,000 population).
Outer Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general, 13.6, zymotic, 0.7, diarrhoeal, 0.2, per 1,000 population).
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 117 shew no addresses, and have been included in Kennington Sub-District—having occurred in
the Workhouse Infirmary (67), and in the Workhouse (50) respectively.