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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 1895
Report on vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1895...
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TABLE T.
Giving death-rates for different groups of diseases in the various Registration Sub-Districts calculated in terms per 1,000 of the population or the total births.
| Per 1000 of the Population | Per 1,000 Births | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phthisis | Tubercular | Cancer | Respiratory Diseases | Old Age | Rheumatism and Gout | Premature Births | Suffocation | |
| Waterloo Road, 1st | 26.03 | 8.9 | 7.4 | 69.9 | 4.5 | 0.7 | 38.6 | 13.5 |
| Waterloo Road, 2nd | 33.3 | 6.6 | 13.9 | 64.5 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 17.04 | 2.0 |
| Lambeth Church, 1st | 19.2 | 9.3 | 9.9 | 64.04 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 25.9 | 6.5 |
| Lambeth Church, 2nd | 22.5 | 9.3 | 4.9 | 64.6 | 6.9 | 0.5 | 9.8 | 7.4 |
| Kennington, 1st | 15.7 | 5.09 | 6.6 | 39.8 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 17.3 | 5.2 |
| Kennington, 2nd | 16.06 | 6.5 | 5.8 | 35.0 | 5.8 | 1.4 | 20.02 | 3.7 |
| Brixton | 15.07 | 4.6 | 9.6 | 30.5 | 4.6 | 1.02 | 15.9 | 2.4 |
| Norwood | 10.43 | 3.13 | 9. 04 | 22.9 | 3.8 | 1.4 | 16.9 | 0.0 |
| 17.9 | 6.1 | 81.09 | 43.8 | 5.4 | 1.09 | 17.7 | 2.7 | |
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N.B.—Waterloo Road 2nd contains the Lying-in Hospital, and Lambeth Church 2nd,
the Workhouse and the Infirmary, giving large infantile populations and, consequently, small
death-rates from premature birth and suffocation.