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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]
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COM PARISON BETWEEN STATISTICS FOR 1898, 1890, AND 1900.
| General | Death.Rate. | Zymotic. | Birth.Rates. | Infantile Mortality, (uncorrected) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18:8 | 1900 | |||||||||||
| 1900 | 1899 | 1899 | 1898 | 1900 | 1899 | 1898 | 1900 | 1899 | 1898 | |||
| Inner Wards— | ||||||||||||
| Waterloo 1st | 24.3 | 24.9 | 25.3 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 34.7 | 32.6 | 35.6 | 223.8 | 2253 | 185.0 |
| * Waterloo 2nd | 23.9 | 27.0 | 25.4 | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 61.5 | 66.9 | 62.3 | 106.8 | 90.1 | 113.4 |
| Lambeth Church 1st | 21.9 | 22.7 | 22.9 | 1.9 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 39.03 | 35.7 | 30.4 | 262.9 | 240.8 | 301.2 |
| tLambeth Church 2nd | 19.7 | 24.8 | 20.4 | 2.8 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 36.1 | 35.9 | 38.5 | 172.4 | 207.6 | 164.3 |
| Outer Wards— | ||||||||||||
| Kennington 1st | 18.8 | 20.2 | 18.5 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 34.3 | 34.8 | 35.4 | 125.6 | 65.2 | 137.2 |
| Kennington 2nd | 15.8 | 17.8 | 16.2 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 21.4 | 23.9 | 22.5 | 124.2 | 141.4 | 139.7 |
| Brixton | 14.3 | 15.4 | 14.9 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 23.7 | 24.9 | 25.0 | 132.1 | 135.8 | 155.9 |
| Norwood | 140.3 | 13.5 | 14.0 | 1.02 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 22.7 | 23.7 | 20.7 | 127.7 | 150.3 | 124.8 |
| Lambeth | 17.4 | 19.1 | 17.9 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 29.4 | 30.6 | 30.4 | 147.3 | 161.9 | 156.3 |
* Excluding the 448 Lying..in Hospital Births, the birth.rate is 29 '2, and the infantile mortality rate 225.3.
† Excluding the 188 Workhouse Births, the birth.rate is 318, and the infantile mortality rate 196.3.