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ditions (sanitary and otherwise) under which they live are matters
to bear in mind when dealing with this difference in death- and
sickness-rates in the Inner as compared with the Outer Districts
of the Borough of Lambeth. No efforts must be spared to lessen
this difference (as it is practically impossible to obliterate it), and
this can be best done by seeing that the crowded Inner Districts
are kept in good sanitary condition by means of constant and
regular inspections. In this way the evil effects arising from
crowding and defective ventilation may be, in part, counteracted.
Taking the Registration Sub-Districts (Table D), and the new
Wards (Table E), into which the Borough is sub-divided, the
rates for 1902 will be found to vary between the Inner and the
Outer Districts as follow : —
Registration
Sub Districts. New Wards,
1902.
Inner. Outer. Inner. Outer.
General Death-rate
(corrected) 23.4 15.4 20.9 14.9
Zymotic Death-rate
(corrected) 2.1 1.4 2.5 1.3
Of the Wards, Tulse Hill has the lowest, and Bishop's the
highest, general death-rate, and Heme Hill the lowest, and
Marsh the highest, zymotic rates; whilst of the Registration SubDistricts
Norwood has the lowest, and Waterloo the highest,
general and zymotic death-rates.
It is only by sub-dividing the rates up in this way that it is possible
to see where the unsatisfactory parts of the Borough are
situated, and where, consequently, most care and attention are
required at the hands of the Borough Council. In this connection,
Table E deals with the new Borough Wards, whilst on page
20 is given a comparison between the 1902 and the 1901
statistics for the Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough.
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