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Officer of Health, thereby guaranteeing that the work carried out
in connection with such Agencies is efficient and is co-ordinated
with the work of the Council's Public Health Department, though,
on the other hand, in connection with a Grant recently paid by
the Local Government Board to the General Lying-in Hospital,
no such certificate of the Medical Officer of Health of the District
was required. From an administrative point of view, all applications
for Grants should be made, in my opinion, through the
Departments of the Medical Officers of Health of the various
Sanitary Authorities, and, if granted, should be paid through
such Sanitary Authorities. An application for a Grant has recently
been sent to the Local Government Board by the Council
in connection with the Council's official Infant Consultations
Centre and Municipal Milk Depot at No. 66 York Road, including
the salary and expenses of the Health Visitor, and a grant of
£67 7s. has been made by the Board. The Board states that it
has no power, under the Maternity and Child Welfare Regulations,
to make grants in respect of the provision of milk or other
food, so that all the Milk Depot expenditure has been excluded,
and the grant has been based entirely upon the work connected
with the Infant Consultations Centre at 66 York Road and the
visiting at the homes of the mothers and infants by the Health
Visitor.
DEATHS, 1916.
The total number of deaths registered is 5,515. The deaths of
all members of the armed forces of this or other countries are excluded
and not only the deaths of those dying in Institutions as
indicated in various tables throughout the body of the Report and
in the special tables I. and 111. of the Local Government Board (vide
Appendix.
All death rates for 1916 are calculated upon civil populations
(estimates).
1. —General Death-Rates.
The uncorrected death-rate for Lambeth is 19.4 per 1,000
inhabitants. These rates are, however, uncorrected, and on
analysing the 5,515 total deaths registered, it is found that 1,929
represent deaths occurring within the Borough amongst persons not
belonging thereto. These deaths are to be deducted, but, on the
other hand, there are 626 deaths registered outside the Borough of
persons belonging thereto, and these must be added, giving a corrected
number of deaths of 4,212, and a corrected death-rate of 14.8
per 1,000 inhabitants.