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inhabitants. The most healthy districts of Lambeth daring tho
year being the Norwood, and the Waterloo Road 1st part
districts, the mortality of both being at the rate of only 189 per
ten thousand inhabitants; that of the Lambeth Church 1st part
district being 198 per ten thousand inhabitants; that of the
Kennington 2nd part, 219 per ten thousand; that of the Brixton
district 221 per ten thousand; that of the Kennington 1st part
230 per ten thousand; that of the Waterloo Road 2nd part 237
per ten thousand; and that of the Lambeth Church 2nd part
district 347 per ten thousand, or excluding tho Workhouse
situate in this district, 238 per ten thousand inhabitants.
By the same Table is also shown that one person amongst
every forty living, died in London during the year; one amongst
forty-one living, died in the South District, and in the whole of
Lambeth; one amongst fifty-two living, died in the Norwood
and Waterloo Road 1st districts; one amongst fifty, in tho
Lambeth Church 1st part; one amongst forty-five in the
Kennington 2nd part, and Brixton districts; one amongst
forty-three, in the Kennington 1st part; one amongst forty-two,
in the Waterloo Road 2nd part; and one amongst twenty-eight
in the Lambeth Church 2nd part district.
The deaths from Epidemic Diseases during 1869 are shown in
Table IV, they amounted to 919, and were in the proportion of
21 per cent of the entire Mortality; in the previous year they
were nearly 22½ per cent of the whole Mortality.
The number of deaths from Diarrhoea were 223, from Whooping
Cough 215, from Scarlet Fever 204, from Fever (including
Typhus) 117, from Measles 116, from Small Pox and Diptheria
each 22.
Amongst this Class of Diseases, the Deaths from Scarlet Fever
show an increase compared with the previous year. The deaths
from Whooping Cough and Diptheria were almost the same as in
1868, and the deaths from Diarrhoea, Fever (including Typhus),
Measles, and Small Pox were all less.