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* Report on the Causes of the high Deathrates
in 1897 in certain Districts of the
Parish of Lambeth.
The total (corrected) death-rate for Lambeth for the
year 1897 is satisfactory, being 17.5 per 1000, as compared
with 18.2 per 1000 for the whole of London. On examining,
more in detail, the death-rates in the various Registration
Sub-Districts, however, they are found to vary from a
maximum 32.9 per 1000, in Waterloo Road 1st, to a
minimum 12.8 per 1000, in Norwood. The mean average
death-rate for the four Inner Districts is 23.5, and for
the four Outer 151 per 1000, with corresponding average
birth-rates of 39.8 and 27.2 per 1000, and corresponding
average zymotic death-rates of 3.95 and 17 per 1000 respectively.
The zymotic incidence (cases notified) for the
Inner Districts is 11.9; for the Outer 7.6 per 1000 inhabitants.
These difference are such as one would expect, considering
the congested state of the Inner as compared
with the Outer Districts, whilst the social status of the inhabitants
of the former, as compared with those of the
latter, needs only to be mentioned to be admitted as an
important factor also in causing increased sickness- and
death-rates. The average number of persons per acre in
the four Inner Districts is 173.3 (varying from a maximum
222.9 in Lambeth Church 2nd, to a minimum 116.9, in
Lambeth Church 1st), and in the four Outer Districts 71.3
* This portion of the Annual Report was presented separately as a
Special Report to the Sanitary Committee, on February 21st, and to the
Vestry on March 18th, 1898.