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Lambeth 1868
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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second part district, 1644 births, and 1209 deaths, 331 of
which occurred in the Workhouse; in the Kennington, 1st part
districts, 1.529 births, and 799 deaths; in the Kennington, 2nd
part district, 932 births, and 548 deaths; in the Brixton district,
981 births, and 515 deaths; and in the Norwood district,
403 births, and 198 deaths, 14 of which occurred in the
Children's Workhouse.
The death-rate of Lambeth has been calculated as usual at
Table III at the same rate of increase of population which took
place in the Parish and its districts, between the decennial peried
of the two last Census's 1851 and 1861; but as the population
has increased much more rapidly during the last seven years in
some districts, the calculation cannot be taken as correct It is
probably nearly correct in the four inner districts, but in the
outer districts of the Parish, the increase of population has been
greater, esjHeiallv in the Kennington 2nd part district, which in*
creased slowly between and 1861, and by the Table would
now appear one of the least healthy districts of Lambeth,
whereas it is really very healthy, the difference arising from the
population being reckoned as only having increased 1158 in
seven years, although 900 houses have been built during that
time in that district, and the population in it has doubtless increased
quite Estimiated according to Table III, the
most healthy districts during the year were the Norwood district,
in which the death-rate was 182 per ten thousand of the population,
or excluding the Children's Workhouse, only 177 per ten
thousand; the Brixton district, 209 per ten thousand; the Lambeth
Church, 1st part, 200 per ten thousand; the Waterloo
Road, 1st part, 215 per ten thousand; the Waterloo Road, 2nd
part, 217 per ten thousand; the Kennington, first part, 222 per
ten thousand; the less healthy districts, being the Kennington
2nd part, 253 per ten thousand; and the Lambeth Church, 2nd
part, 383 per ten thousand, or excluding the Workhouse 288
per ten thousand of the population. The death-rate of the