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Summary.
I. General Hospitals 116
II. Special and Fever Hospitals 164
III. Infirmaries and Workhouses 17
IV. Asylums 108
V. Elsewhere (Unclassifiable) 24
429
Whether we take the corrected or uncorrected death-rates
for Lambeth (as a whole), it is satisfactory for the year 1897,
as it was for 1896, whilst on examining the death-rates more
closely, e.g., as to age-periods, and special diseases, we
shall find cause for even greater satisfaction and congratulation.
If, however, we sub-divide the death-rate into the
several Registration Sub-Districts, we find that the so-called
Inner Wards, e.g., Waterloo 1st and 2nd, Lambeth Church
1st and 2nd, have suffered out of all proportion as compared
with the so-called Outer Wards, e.g., Kennington 1st and
2nd, Brixton and Norwood.
The mean average death-rate for the four Inner Districts
is 21.8, and for the four Outer, 15 2 per 1000, with
corresponding average birth-rates of 44 6 and 27 9 per 1000
respectively (allowing for the fact that the Lying-in Hospital
and Workhouse are in the Inner Districts). The Zymotic
death-rate is, for the Inner Districts, 3.2, and for the Outer
Districts, 2.1 per 1000, and the Zymotic incidence (cases
notified), 11.4 and 9.2 per 1000 respectively. The Inner
Wards have a larger comparative mortality amongst children
under five years of age, and amongst infants under one year
of age (per 1000 births), and a correspondingly smaller
mortality in persons over 60 years of age. The subject
is so important that a Special Report has been prepared
giving the causes of the high death-rates in the InnerWards
of the Parish of Lambeth during 1897, and offerinng
in connection therewith various suggestions which the
Vestry will have to carry out, if they wish to ameliorate
the conditions under which the inhabitants live in the Inner
Wards. This Special Report is printed in Appendix I.
to this Report at end.