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Lambeth 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]

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Table: TABLE D. TABLE D.Showing the number of Births and Deaths, with Birth. and Death.rates in each of the Registration Sub.Districts of the Parish during 1900. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the Zymotic Diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Parish, by omitting strangers who die within the Parish, and by re.distributing persons who die in Public Institutions in other Districts from which they have been removed during illness.

TABLE D. TABLE D.

Showing the number of Births and Deaths, with Birth. and Death.rates in each of the Registration Sub.Districts of the Parish during 1900. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the Zymotic Diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Parish, by omitting strangers who die within the Parish, and by re.distributing persons who die in Public Institutions in other Districts from which they have been removed during illness.

DISTRICTS.Persons per Acre.Estimated Population (middle 1900).Total Births.Birth.rate per 1000 of the Population.Total Deaths (corrected).General Death.rate per 1000 of the PopulationSmall Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Typhoid or Enteric.Continued Fever.Diarrhæa.Total Zymotic Deaths.Zymotic Death.rate per 1000 of the Population.Zymotic Death.rate prr 1000 of the Total DeathsDiarrhæa Death.rate per 1000 of the Population.Infantile Mortality per 1000 Births (uncorrected
Waterloo Road 1st213.31433049634.732724.3...111103...2...12392.8115.50.9223.8
2nd13941385385261.531123.9...7...1111.........7362.7111.90.5106.8
Lambeth Church 1st113.719377£8230.0340321.9...1168...2...19371.990021.0262.9
„ 2nd226.642642154336.182019.7...5...1718...14133882.8106.040.8172.4†
Kennington 1st109.754146185634.399718.8...65139...14...21711.370.80.5125.6
„ 2nd91.54628999021.471115.8...721817...7...16671.593.10.4124.2
Brixton61.189057211223.7126214.3...2272329...11...261181.392.90.3132.1
Norwood31.43245873622.743514.03...10322...2...13321.0268.30.4127.7
District not stated............164.........13......2...39............
Lambeth78.23121529167294543017.4...692010397...5411534971.691.50.5147.3

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N.B.—In the 164. cases Where the District is not stated the death.rate has been calculated on the assumption that these deaths
were sub.divided equally in the eight District Census 1891 Return gives the area of Lambeth as 3,941 statute acre exclusive
of tidal water, and foreshore).
* Excluding the Lying.Hospital births,the corrected rate.225.3 per 1000.
† Excluding the Workhouse births the corrected rate.196.3 per 1000.
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