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Lambeth 1902
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1902
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BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR 1902.
Area of Borough— 4,080.4 statute acres (exclusive of tidal
water 821, and foreshore 31.1, statute acres respectively)
divided into 7 Registration Sub-Districts, 4
Parliamentary Divisions, and 9 New Wards. The
Parliamentary Divisions and New Wards are not
co-extensive.
Population— estimated middle of 1902— 305,102 (males,
144,315 ; females, 160,787).
Density— 74.8 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses— 41,511 at Census, 1901.
Rateable Value— £1,876,927.
Marriages— 2548, being 16.7 per 1,000.
Births— 9,067, being 29.7 per 1000.
Deaths (corrected)— 5387, being 17.7 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality— 1155 deaths (corrected) under 1 year,
being 127 .4 per 1,000 births.
Zymotic — Death-Rate, 1.8 per 1,000.
Estimated Increase of Population 2569 ; but the natural
increase or increment {i.e., excess of Births over Deaths)
was 3672.