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Lambeth 1918

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.
WARDS.Total Deaths (corrected).General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population.TotalDeaths (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).
Marsh38319.8162393331.81.6
Bishop's53719.712712213461.74.3
Prince's93625.528551220701.95.4
Vauxhall53820.224716653192.2
Stockwell49917.71013313210.71.1
Brixton72218.414169116380.96.5
Heme Hill4931681325165411.41.7
Tulse Hill4341575461160.60. 4
Norwood42614.855213160.51.0
Borough of Lambeth494818.91271145855160 3341.32.3

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.