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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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died from these diseases outside the Borough. Subtracting the
strangers and adding the parishioners who died outside the Borough,
there is a corrected total of 334, giving a zymotic death-rate (corrected)
of 1.3 per 1,000 inhabitants. As in the case of the general
death-rates, the zymotic death-rates vary in the inner and outer
districts, viz., 1.9 as compared with 0.9 per 1,000 population
respectively (vide Tables D (1) and D (2)).
The different rates of mortality from different diseases and
groups of diseases during 1917 and 1918 are given in terms of the
total deaths (corrected) in Table E, whilst Table E gives also the
corrected deaths from the chief infantile diseases, expressed in
terms of the infantile population (i.e., corrected number of births
registered). The tuberculosis corrected death-rate for 1918 is
2.05, i.e., 538 deaths from all forms of tuberculosis per 1,000
population, and the consumption (phthisis) death-rate, 1.5, i.e.,
401 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption (phthisis)
per 1,000 population.
The details of the tuberculosis deaths in the various Registration Sub-Districts are:—
| Registration Sub-Districts. | Corrected Deaths from | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pul. Tub. or Phthisis (consumpt'n) | Other Forms Tuberculosis. | Total Deaths Tuberculosis (all forms) | Phthisis-rate per 1,000 population. | Tuberculosis rate per l,000 population. | ||
| Lambeth Church | 67 | 31 | 98 | 1.6 | 2.4 | |
| Kennington | 97 | 29 | 126 | 2.3 | 3.0 | |
| Stockwell | 92 | 18 | 110 | 1 .7 | 2.0 | |
| Brixton | 97 | 36 | 133 | 1.4 | 1 .9 | |
| Norwood | 48 | 23 | 71 | 0.8 | 1.2 | |
| Borough of Lambeth | 401 | 137 | 538 | *1.5 | 2.05 | |
Rates for Inner Districts 1.9* and 2-6f.
Rates for Outer Districts ... 1 -2* and 1 l\.
Ten of the total corrected deaths registered from tuberculosis
(9 from phthisis or the pulmonary form) shew no addresses
and have been included in Kennington Sub-District as Workhouse
and Workhouse Infirmary deaths.
During the five quinquennia 1891-1895 (Parish), 1896-1900
(Parish), 1901-1905 (Borough), 1906-1910 (Borough), and 1911-1915
(Borough), the yearly averages of total deaths from (a) pulmonary
tuberculosis or consumption (phthisis), and (b) tuberculosis (all
forms) were (a) 478-8, 496-8, 462-8, 421-6 and 386 -8, and (b)
675-0, 690-0, 647-4, 567-4 and 500-0 respectively, representing
a steady decline in the tuberculosis death-rates during the last 20
vears.
*t In calculating the death rates for the Registration Sub-Districts (Inner
and Outer), the deaths registered in Stockwell Sub-District are divided equally
between Inner and Outer Stockwell, as has been done in previous Reports.