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Lambeth 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Changes in Registration of Deaths.
The Registrar-General decided to publish from January 1st.
1911, in his annual reports, an analysis of deaths according to
administrative areas instead of registration areas as hitherto,
and this decision necessitates a complete distribution of the deaths
of persons dying away from their homes to the administrative
areas in which they had previously resided.
Reports were received quarterly during 1917 from the Registrar-General—a
total of 62 deaths—on slips, giving particulars
of outside deaths assigned to the Borough, in addition to those
reported in the usual way as having occurred in Metropolitan
Institutions, which are situated outside the Borough.
The table for the year 1917 (and the previous 5 years) at the end of the Report (Appendix), known as the Local Government Board Table I, shews these corrected statistics of deaths within the Borough (differing slightly, in consequence, from the statistics in the body of the Report), the extra additional figures for the year 1917 being as follows :—
| Age Periods. | Males. | Females. | Totals. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0—1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1— 2 | — | _ | — |
| 2—5 | — | 2 | 2 |
| 5—15 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 15—25 | — | — | — |
| 25—45 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 45—65 | 13 | 5 | 18 |
| 65 and upwards | 13 | 5 | 18 |
| Total all ages | 34 | 28 | 62 |