View report page

18
HEART DISEASE.
The number of deaths from the above cause, was 238. Included
in the above return for Lambeth Church 1st part are the deaths
of 17 strangers in St. Thomas's Hospital. The returns of Lambeth
Church 2nd part include 30 deaths from Heart Disease in the
Workhouse Infirmary.
CONVULSIONS.
163 Infants died of Convulsions. These occurred in the following
Districts:—
Waterloo Road, 1st part 8
Ditto 2nd „ 25
Lambeth Church, 1st part 15
Ditto 2nd part 39
Kennington, 1st part 34
Ditto 2nd part 22
Brixton 15
Norwood 5
Total Deaths 163
If to this number be added the 201 children under 12 months
old, in whose cases Convulsions were stated as one of the causes,
but not the primary cause of death, the mortality under this head
reaches 364, or an average of one per diem. Thus 41 children
under one year died of Bronchitis and Convulsions, 13 of
Marasmus and Convulsions, and the following were the principal
of the other primary causes, in which Convulsions participated
as a cause of death. Diarrhoea, 35; Dentition, 15; Premature
Birth, 10; Whooping Cough, 9; Pneumonia, 9; Inanition, 9;
Measles, 8; Congenital Syphilis, 5.
CANCER.
During the year, 92 persons died of Cancer in Lambeth, including
15 strangers in Hospitals.