Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1918
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TABLE D (2). TABLE D (2). Shewing the corrected number of Deaths, with corrected Death-rates (general, zymotic and diarrhceal), in each of the Wards of the Borough during 1918. The deaths are from all causes, and from the 7 chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing persons (who die in Public Institutions) amongst the Districts from which they have been removed into such Public Institutions for treatment.)
B. Wards. | B. Wards. | ||||||||||||||
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WARDS. | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population. | Total | Deaths (corrected) from | |||||||||||
Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid orEnteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhoea. | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate pel 1000 of the Population (corrected). | Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10,000 of the Population (corrected). | |||
Marsh | 383 | 19.8 | — | 16 | 2 | 3 | 9 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 33 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
Bishop's | 537 | 19.7 | — | 12 | — | 7 | 12 | — | 2 | — | — | 13 | 46 | 1.7 | 4.3 |
Prince's | 936 | 25.5 | — | 28 | 5 | 5 | 12 | — | — | — | — | 20 | 70 | 1.9 | 5.4 |
Vauxhall | 538 | 20.2 | — | 24 | — | 7 | 16 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 53 | 19 | 2.2 |
Stockwell | 499 | 17.7 | — | 10 | 1 | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | 21 | 0.7 | 1.1 |
Brixton | 722 | 18.4 | — | 14 | 1 | 6 | 9 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 6 | 38 | 0.9 | 6.5 |
Heme Hill | 493 | 168 | — | 13 | 2 | 5 | 16 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 41 | 1.4 | 1.7 |
Tulse Hill | 434 | 157 | — | 5 | — | 4 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 16 | 0.6 | 0. 4 |
Norwood | 426 | 14.8 | — | 5 | — | 5 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | 16 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
Borough of Lambeth | 4948 | 18.9 | — | 127 | 11 | 45 | 85 | — | 5 | 1 | — | 60 334 | 1.3 | 2.3 |
Inner Wards death rates per 1,000 population (general, 21.8, zymotic, 1.9; diarrhceal, 0.39). Outer Wards—death rates per 1,000 population
{general, 16.8; zymotic, 0.9 ; diarræal, 0.12).
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 64 show no addresses, and have been included in Bishop's and Prince's Wards, having
occurred in the Workhouse Infirmary (35), and in the Workhouse (29) respectively.