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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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TABLE
BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.
COMPARISON BETWEEN STATISTICS FOR 1905 and 190G.
Registration Sub.Districts.
| Death.Rates (corrected) per 1000 population. | Birth.Rates (uncorrected) per 1000 population. | Infantile Mortality § (uncorrected) per 1000 births. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General. | Zymotic. | ||||||||
| 1905. | 1906. | 1905. | 1906. | 1905.. | 1906. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. | |
| Inner Districts— | 19.4 | 20.5 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 3° .8 | 41.1 | 170.4 | 134.7 | 157.7 |
| *Waterloo | 21.7 | 22.03 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 52.1 | 53.9 | 123.9 | 97.6 | 110.1 |
| Lambeth Church 1st | 16.2 | 16.9 | 1.6 | 24 | 28.9 | 30.7 | 289.9 | 2124 | 237.3 |
| †Lambeth Church 2nd | 19.7 | 21.3 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 36.7 | 37.1 | 165.9 | 141.2 | 173.04 |
| Outer Districts— | 13.2 | 12.8 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 23.9 | 23.3 | 132.2 | 123.1 | 116.3 |
| Kenning ton 1st | 14.2 | 14.5 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 31.2 | 33.7 | 124.9 | 105.8 | 82.4 |
| Kennington 2nd | 14.5 | 14.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 21.04 | 22.2 | 168.2 | 206.8 | 213.3 |
| Brixton | 12.5 | 12.1 | 1.03 | 1.2 | 22.5 | 20.9 | 133.8 | 105.2 | 105.5 |
| Norwood | 10.9 | 10.4 | 1.04 | 1.1 | 20.3 | 18.6 | 104.3 | 101.5 | 101.4 |
* Excluding the 589 Lying.in Hospital Births, the birth.rate is 317, and the infantile mortality rate 187.6, for 1906.
t Excluding the 192 Workhouse Births, the birth.rate is 32 3, and the infantile mortality rate 1986, for 1906.
§ N.B—The infan ils mortality statistics for 1904 have been added because, from a meteorological point of view, the years
1904 and 1906 are comparable, and the infantile mortality.rates, on comparison, show a marked decline in 1906.