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Lambeth 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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added. Taking the uncorrected births and the corrected deaths
under 1 year, the infantile mortality rate is 75.1 per 1,000, the
annual average for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough), being 114.8.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (6865)), and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (728), the uncorrected
infantile mortality is 105.9. the annual average
for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough) being 123.8, and that for the
decennium 1891-1900 (Parish) 150.5. The chief causes of these
deaths under 1 year are debility, atrophy, and inanition, congenital
malformations, measles, whooping-cough, syphilis, bronchitis
and other diseases of the respiratory organs, diarrhoea, and
prematurity.
In the Registration Sub-Districts, the uncorrected infantile mortality varied from 182.5 per 1,000 births in Kennington to 72.6 in Stockwell (the rates of 89.8 in Lambeth Church, 182.5 in Kennington, and 72.6 in Stockwell, being diluted owing to the fact that these Sub-Districts contain the General Lying-in Hospital, the Workhouse and the Maternity Hospital respectively), thus—
| Total No. of Births (uncorrected) 1917. | Total Deaths under 1 year (uncorrected). 1917. | Infantile Mortality per 1000 births (uncorrected). 1917. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambeth Church* | 2027 | 182 | 89.8* |
| Kennington† | 893 | 163 | 182 .5† |
| Stockwell‡ | 1888 | 137 | 72.61‡ |
| Brixton | 1178 | 171 | 145.2 |
| Norwood | 833 | 75 | 84.9 |
| Lambeth | 6869 | 728 | 105.9 |
§ Inner Districts—107 .01, Outer Districts—104. 6.
3.—Zymotic Death-Rates.
The zymotic death rate is made up of the total deaths from the
seven principal zymotic diseases, viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup) whooping cough,
" fever " (including typhus, typhoid or enteric and simple continued
or ill-defined) and diarrhoea.
The total number of deaths registered from these diseases is
389—150 strangers belonging to other districts and 239 parishioners
who died within the Borough ; whilst, in addition, 56 parishioners
*Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births, the rate is 147.9
†Excluding all the Workhouse births, the rate is 232.5.
‡Excluding all the Maternity Hospital births, the rate is 137.4.
§N.B.—The births and deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-Districts are
divided equally between the Inner and Outer Districts for the purpose of
calculating infantile mortality rates for such Districts in this Table.