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89
Quinquennial
Period.
Population
(estimated).
Number of
Deaths.
Death-Rate per
million living.
Old Parish of Lambeth.
Boro
1863—1867 902119 148 164
1868—1872 1021165 96 94
1873—1877 1132106 184 163
1878—1882 1245913 255 205
1883—1887 1313211 365 278
1888—1892 1367734 537 393
1893—1897 1443857 683 483
1898 304073 108 355
1899 308108 153 496
1900 312152 101 323
1901 302533 47 155
1902 305102 49 160
Even allowing for the slight fallacy that may arise from comparing
statistics of the old Parish with those of the new Borough
of Lambeth, the sudden decrease in the mortality from Diphtheria
is most remarkable, and when taken in conjunction with
the equally sudden decrease in the number of notifications of the
same disease received, points to a sudden decline in the prevalence
of Diphtheria throughout the Borough of Lambeth during
1902, as well as during 1901, and that, too, although Diphtheria
has been rising slowly but surely in epidemic proportions for the
last 20 years. The statistics for London, as a whole, are no less
remarkable.
The age and sex incidence and mortality from Diphtheria
cases notified in the Borough of Lambeth during 1902 are as
follow:-