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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
during 1903 and 1904, whilst on page 21 is given a similar
comparison between the 1903 and the 1904 statistics for the
Registration Sub-Districts of the Borough.
Tables F, G, H and I shew the uncorrected returns (male and
female) arranged as to Registration Sub-Districts, age periods,
and quarters respectively, and are given for comparison with
similiar tables in former Lambeth Reports.
The place that the Borough of Lambeth takes in the
Registrar-General's Returns amongst the Metropolitan Sanitary
Districts is worthy of note, there being 15 other districts (out of
29) with a less general death-rate, 15 with a less zymotic
death-rate, and 11 with a less infantile mortality-rate. Taking
the South Metropolitan Districts, Battersea has a general
death-rate per 1000 of the population of 14.5, and Camberwell of
14.9, as compared with Lambeth 15.7, Bermondsey 20.0, and
Southwark 20.1, respectively.
London, as a whole, has a birth-rate of 27.9, corrected deathrate
of 16.1, a corrected zymotic (death-) rate of 2.1 per 1000
population, and an infant mortality (corrected) of 144 per 1000
births; and England and Wales a birth-rate of 27.9, a corrected
death-rate of 16.2, a corrected zymotic death-rate of 1.94 per
1000 population, and an infantile mortality (corrected) of 146
per 1000 births; and the 76 great towns of England and Wales
a birth-rate of 29.1, a corrected death-rate of 17.2, a corrected
zymotic death-rate of 2.49, per 1000 population, and an infantile
mortality (corrected) of 160 per 1000 births.