Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1897
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Waterloo
1st
Lambeth
Church
1st.
Brixton.
Norwood.
Measles
0.8
0.9
0.3
0.008
Whooping Cough
1.2
1.1
0.9
0.1
Diarrhœa
0.9
1.6
0 .4
0.7
Typhoid
6.3
20.6
5.6
1.9
Diphtheria
4.5
5.1
2.1
0.6
Scarlet Fever
8.6
7.4
3.5
3.2
Respiratory Diseases, in part the after effects of
Measles and Whooping Cough
4.9
3.8
2.1
1.7
Phthisis
3.8
2.6
1.1
1.3
Other Tubercular Diseases
1.4
0.9
0.6
0.2
Premature Births
22.2
41.9
22.1
14.3
Atrophy, debility, and inanition
2.2
0.8
0.5
0.8
Death-rate
32.9
23.3
13.5
12.8
Zymotic Death-rate
4.6
4.4
1.5
1.2
Birth-rate
49.3
31.6
25.4
23.1
Infantile Mortalities (deaths under 1 year of age
per 1000 births)
145.3*
314.9
134.2
143.1
*N.B.—Including Waterloo Road First and Second, the latter district containing the Lying-in
Hospital, the number of births in which dilute the infantile mortality in "Waterloo Road District,"
as it is now called, Waterloo Road First and Second having been amalgamated by the RegistrarGeneral.