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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1916
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1916
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TABLE D (1). A. Registration Sub-Districts.
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Deathrate per 1000 of the Population. | Total Deaths (corrected) from | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected). | Diarrhæa Death-rate per 10000 of the Population (corrected). | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Typhus. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhæa. | ||||||
| Lambeth Church | 681 | 15.5 | – | 11 | – | 10 | 12 | – | – | – | – | 25 | 58 | 1.3 | 5.7 |
| Kennington | 859 | 18.9 | – | 16 | 4 | 7 | 11 | – | – | – | – | 28 | 66 | 14 | 6.2 |
| Stockwell* | 889 | 14.9 | – | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | – | – | – | – | 23 | 54 | 0.9 | 39 |
| Brixton | 1038 | 14.0 | – | 11 | 1 | 9 | 11 | – | – | – | – | 18 | 50 | 0.7 | 2.4 |
| Norwood | 745 | 12.2 | – | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 11 | 0.3 | 20 | 1.8 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 4212 | 14.8 | – | 49 | 7 | 41 | 45 | – | 1 | – | – | 105 | 248 | 0.9 | 3.7 |
*Of the 889 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sab-District, 405 belong to the Inner and 484 to the Outer Stockwell Sub-District respectively.
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general, 16.4, zymotic, 1.4, diarrhoeal, 0.6, per 1,000 population).
Outer Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general, 13.7, zymotic, 0.5, diarrhoeal, 0.2, per 1,000 population).
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 64 shew no addresses, and have been included in Kennington Sub-District—having occurred in
the Workhouse Infirmary (39),and in the Workhouse (25) respectively.