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that, as a general law, it is found that the more congested a
district (houses over area), the higher the mortality, and the
greater the morbidity. The status of the inhabitants, and the
general conditions (sanitary and otherwise) under which they live,
are also matters to bear in mind when dealing with this difference
in death- and sickness-rates in the Inner as compared with the
Outer Districts and Wards 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 (as I have
often pointed out) 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
corrected rates for 1904 will be found to vary between the Inner
and the Outer Districts as follows:—
1904.
Registration
Sub-Districts.
New Wards.
Inner.
Outer.
Inner.
Outer.
General Death-rate (corrected) 20.7 13.8 18.9 13.2
Zymotic Death-rate (corrected) 3.2 1.5 2.8 1.3
Of the New Wards, Tulse Hill has the lowest general and
zymotic death-rates, and Bishop's and Marsh the highest general
and zymotic death-rates respectively, whilst, of the Registration
Sub-Districts, Norwood has the lowest, and Waterloo the highest,
general death-rate, and Brixton and Norwood the lowest, and
Lambeth Church 2nd the highest, zymotic death-rate.
It is only by sub-dividing the rates up in this way that it is
possible to see where the (sanitarily) unsatisfactory parts of the