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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 1876

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]

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Table: By designating Waterloo Road, 1st and 2nd parts, and Lambeth Church, 1st and 2nd parts, as the Urban Districts and Kennington, 1st and 2nd parts, and Brixton and Norwood as the Sub-Urban districts, we have the following facts—

By designating Waterloo Road, 1st and 2nd parts, and Lambeth Church, 1st and 2nd parts, as the Urban Districts and Kennington, 1st and 2nd parts, and Brixton and Norwood as the Sub-Urban districts, we have the following facts—

Urban Portion.Sub-Urbnn Portion.
Estimated Population93.728140,199
Births in 1876-74,0524,914
Deaths2,5422,787
Natural increase of Population15.1021.27
Birth-rate per 1000 of Population43.2335.05
Death-rate ditto ditto24.3719.87

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SCARLET FEVER.
The mortality from Scarlet Fever shows 50 per cent. fewer
deaths than last year; the numbers being 164, as compared with
335. The decrease took place in all the districts excepting
Waterloo Road 2nd part, and Norwood. Fifty-four deaths
occurred in the Hospitals, 41 of them being strangers; the
other 13 were Lambeth cases in the Stockwell Hospital.
The deaths in the June Quarter were 29 (8 strangers), September
41 (10 strangers), December 75 (20 strangers), and in March
Quarter 19 (3 strangers).
It therefore appears that out of the total of 78,616 deaths from
all causes in Lambeth during the past 18 years, 3493, or 4.44
per cent. died from Scarlet Fever. The deaths for the past year
amounted to 3.08 per cent. of the total mortality, being under the
average by 1.36 per cent.
Of the 123 Lambeth deaths, 60 children died between two
and five years old, and 32 between five and fifteen. This is important
as pointing to school influence as the means of spreading
the infection of Scarlet Fever.
Table V. Exhibits the mortality from Scarlet Fever in the
several districts of Lambeth in each year since 1860, and the
per centage the total bears yearly to the total deaths from all
causes.