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Lambeth 1895
Report on vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1895...
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LAMBETH PARISH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR 1895.
Area of Parish—3,941 statute acres (exclusive of tidal water,
79, and foreshore 39, statute acres respectively), divided
into 8 Registration Sub-districts, 4 Parliamentary
Divisions, and 8 New Wards. The Parliamentary
Divisions and New Wards are co-extensive.
Population (estimated middle of 1895)—284,885 (males,
114,562; females, 150,323).
Density—72 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses—38,556 at Census, 1891
Rateable Value—£1,575,325.
Marriages—2,220, being 15.6 per 1,000.
Births—9,341, being 32.8 per 1,000.
Deaths (corrected)—5,559, being 19-5 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality—1,420 under 1 year, or 152 per 1,000
births.
Zymotic—Death Rate 2 6 per 1,000.
Increase of Population 2,308; but the natural increase
or increment (i.e., excess of Births over Deaths) was
3,782.