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Class VII.—Deaths from Violence.
171 deaths in all, including 14G from Accidents, 11 from
Burns and Scalds, 11 from Drowning, 24 from Suffocation
in bed (19 being infants under 1 year) and 25 from Suicide.
Class VIII.—Other Causes.
160 deaths were registered in this class, consisting of deaths
from Dropsy, Tumours, Haemorrhages, or other ill-defined
or non-specified causes.
Different rates of mortality from different diseases and groups
of diseases are given in terms of the total deaths (corrected and
uncorrected) in Tables T and U; whilst Table T gives also the
deaths from the chief Infantile Diseases, expressed in terms of
the Infantile population (or number of Births). Allowing for
the slight differences between corrected and uncorrected death
returns, it will be noted that, in regard to both infantile and
other diseases, Lambeth again compares favourably with London
(vide Table U).
Deaths amongst infants under 1 year are a sensitive index
(amongst others) of the sanitary state of a Community, and in
this respect the Lambeth Borough statistics, as a whole, are
satisfactory. The Table on p. 21 is important, too, in this connection,
as comparing the Lambeth Borough statistics with those
for London as a whole, taken in different age-periods.
PHYSICAL DETERIORATION AND
ALCOHOLISM.
The Council during 1905 decided to placard, throughout the
Borough, posters dealing with the dangers of alcoholism in