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densities are 212.4, and 116.9 persons per acre respectively,
and which have suffered most in mortality during the last
year. The birth-rates too, of these districts are high, leaving,
as already stated, a large yearly susceptible young population
to fall an easy prey to diseases of childhood, the
following of which were most serious in the two districts
named above during the year 1897:—
1. Chief zymotic diseases generally (taken as a whole),
and more especially whooping cough and scarlet
fever in Waterloo 1st., and measles, diarrhoea,
diphtheria, and typhoid in Lambeth Church 1st.
2. Respiratory diseases — bronchitis, pneumonia,
pleurisy, &c.—in part the after-consequences of
whooping cough and measles and specially marked
in Waterloo 1st.
3. Phthisis and other tubercular diseases specially
marked in Waterloo 1st.
4. Debility, atrophy, inanition, specially marked in
Waterloo 1st., and premature births specially
marked in Lambeth Church 1st.
The following table compares the number of deaths in
Waterloo 1st and Lambeth Church 1st. (the highest deathrates)
with those in Prixton and Norwood (the lowest
death-rates), tabulating those diseases which were most
fatal:—