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Total No.
of Births.
Total
Deaths under
1 year
(uncorrected).
Infantile
Morality per
1,000 births
(uncorrected).
Waterloo Road 1st 449 54 120.3
„ „ 2nd* 935 81 86.6*
Lambeth Church 1st 532 113 212.4
„ „ 2nd † 1463 207 141.5†
Kennington 1st 1705 185 108.5
„ 2nd 938 194 206.8
Brixton 2015 212 105.2
Norwood 798 81 101.5
Lambeth 8835 1127 1276
N.B.—Waterloo Road 1st and 2nd have been amalgamated by the
General, and now form one District called Waterloo.
*Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births, the corrected rate is 145.4.
†Excluding all the Workhouse births, the corrected rate is 160.4.
The Infantile Mortality (like the deaths under 1 year of age)
is regarded as a sensitive index of the Sanitary state of a
District, and, judged by this index, Lambeth Borough takes a
most satisfactory position amongst Sanitary Districts. Taking
the Registrar-General's old 33 Large Towns of England and
Wales, the uncorrected infantile mortalities vary from a
minimum 95 in Croydon, to a maximum 174 in Norwich, Lambeth
and London being 127 and 131 respectively. Lambeth ranks
seventh lowest in such list, 27 Towns having higher infantile
mortality rates. Taking the uncorrected births and the corrected
deaths, the rate for Lambeth is 114, and of the 29 Metropolitan
Sanitary Districts, 6 have lesser infantile mortality rates than
Lambeth Borough; and of the 10 South Metropolitan Districts,
2 only have lesser infantile mortality rates, viz.:—Lewisham
and Woolwich with 92 and 102 per 1,000 births respectively.
The 2 highest rates amongst the South Metropolitan Districts
are registered in Bermondsey and Southwark, viz., 148 in each.