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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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Causes of the 82 Outside Deaths.

Causes of Death.Male.Female.
Cerebrospinal Fever1
Diphtheria11
Puerperal Fever1
Influenza52
Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)66
Other Tubercular diseases11
Cancer, malignant disease23
Heart disease65
Bronchitis12
Pneumonia42
Broncho-Pneumonia2
Other Lung diseases3
Nephritis and Bright's disease3
Diabetes mellitus
Violent deaths12
Suicide1
Appendicitis1
Nervous diseases13
Strangulated Hernia1
Diseases of Digestive System4
Syphilis
Wound (gun shot, shrapnel or bomb, mine or torpedo)21
Not classified above34
4735

2.—Infantile Mortality Rates.
Of the 4,948 corrected deaths, 449 are infants under one year
of age. The total number of registered births is 6,390, and, of
these, 643 occurred at the Lying-in Hospital, and belong to districts
outside the Borough, 118 occurred at the Workhouse and belong to
districts outside the Borough, and 625 occurred at the Maternity
Hospital and belong to districts outside the Borough. In this way,
the corrected number of births (i.e., excluding all non-Lambeth
Institutional births) for the Borough is 5,004*. The corrected
infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected deaths under one year per
1,000 corrected births) is, therefore, 89.7, the annual average for
the decennium 1901-10 (Borough) being 122.7. In calculating this
corrected infantile mortality it must be remembered that, whilst the
institutional births, that belong to outside districts, are subtracted,
the births of infants of Lambethian mothers who may happen to be
residing outside the Borough at the times of such births are not
*The Registrar-General returns the corrected number of births for the
Borough during 1918 as 4,737.