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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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added. Taking the uncorrected births and the corrected deaths
under 1 year, the infantile mortality rate is 70.3 per 1,000, the
annual average for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough), being 114.8.
Taking the uncorrected number of births (6,390), and the
uncorrected number of deaths under 1 year of age (661), the uncorrected
infantile mortality is 103.4. the annual average
for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough) being 123.8, and that for the
decennium 1891-1900 (Parish) 150.5. The chief causes of these
deaths under 1 year are debility, atrophy, and inanition, congenital
malformations, measles, whooping-cough, syphilis, bronchitis
and other diseases of the respiratory organs, diarrhoea, and
prematurity.
In whatever way the uncorrected infantile mortality rate is
expressed statistically, it shows a remarkable decrease during
recent year as compared with the decennium 1901-10.

In the Registration Sub-Districts, the uncorrected infantile mortality varied from 59 9 per 1,000 births in Stockwell to 212 7 in Kennington, thus:—

Total No. of Births (uncorrected) 1918.Total Deaths under 1 year (uncorrected). 1918.Infantile Mortality per 1000 births (uncorrected). 1918.
Lambeth Church*198114271.7*
Kennington†879187212.7†
Stockwell‡172010359.9‡
Brixton10541541461
Norwood7567599.2
Lambeth6390661103.4

§ Inner Districts—102 3, Outer Districts—105.05.
3.—Zymotic Death-Kates.
The zymotic death rate is made up of the total deaths from the
seven principal zymotic diseases, viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup) whooping cough,
"fever" (including typhus, typhoid or enteric and simple continued
or ill-defined) and diarrhoea.
The total number of deaths registered from these diseases is
498—208 strangers belonging to other districts and 293 parishioners
who died within the Borough ; whilst, in addition, 44 parishioners
*Excluding all the Lying-In Hospital births, the rate is 126.9
†Excluding all the Workhouse births, the rate is 304.6.
‡Excluding all the Maternity Hospital births, the rate is 117.8.
§N.B.—The births and deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-Districts are
divided equally' between the Inner and Outer Districts for the purpose of
calculating infantile mortality rates for such Districts in this Table.