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DEATH RATE.
The deaths from all causes, registered in Lambeth during
the year 1887, were 5415, of these 2819 were males and 2596
females. This number includes the deaths of 437 persons
who had been removed to the Hospitals situated in Lambeth
bat who had previously lived in other parishes of the
Metropolis; on the other hand 227 parishioners died in the
outlying institutions in the Metropolis, and 87 parishioners
died in extra Metropolitan institutions. Having deducted
the former and added the latter, the number of deaths proper
to Lambeth is 5292, representing a drath rate of 19.0 per
1000 persons living. The Metropolitan rate for the same
period being 19.6 per 1000.
In the Metropolis the registered deaths numbered 82,208,
and the rate was the lowest on record. Since the present
system of civil registration began, the death rate in the five
great groups of districts is as follows:-
South Districts 18.7
West Districts 18.0
Central Districts 26.2
North Districts 17.7
East Districts 21.9