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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 1893

The annual report on vital and sanitary statistics, 1893

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Table: Public Institutions of Lambeth.

Public Institutions of Lambeth.

Number of Inmates.
Male.Female.Total.
Royal Infirmary, Waterloo Road132336
General Lying-in Hospital82533
St. Thomas's Hospital211175386
Workhouse, Renfrew Road400538938
Workhouse, Princes Road18050230
Workhouse Infirmary, Brook St.303309612
Workhouse Casual Wards17522
Clapham Maternity Hospital61117
South Western Asylums Board819879
Brixton Military Prison77—77
Old Lambeth Schools13788225
New Lambeth Schools238160398

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Houses and Tenements.
The houses of Lambeth number 37,680, standing on 3,941
statute acres, averaging for the whole district 9.5 houses per acre.
In the most crowded part —that is, in the sub-district of Waterloo
1st—there are thirty houses per acre; whilst in the open
neighbourhood of Norwood there are more than two houses per
acre, but less than three.
Statute
Acres.
Inhabited
Houses.
Uninhabited
Houses.
Houses
Building.
Waterloo 1st 67 1899 89 o
Waterloo 2nd 100 1890 87 4
Lambeth Church 1st 162 2253 198 9
Lambeth Church 2nd 186 4689 79 12
Kennington 1st 490 6390 239 71
Kennington 2nd 498 5595 170 19
Brixton 1429 9847 740 173
Norwood 1009 2841 274 199
3941 3S4°4 1876 482