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Waterloo
1st.
Lambeth
Church
1st.
Brixton.
Norwood
Area Density (persons per
acre)
212.4
116.9
58.7
29.9
Population Density
(persons per house)
9.6
9.04
6.3
6.2
N.B.—The rates are deaths per 1000, and in the case of
the notifiable diseases, cases notified per 1000, inhabitants,
and where printed in bold type, represent the highest of any
district in the Parish during the year 1897. To state
deaths from different diseases in terms of 1000 total
deaths is not satisfactory, as two factors are involved, both
of which are variable.
So much for the causes of the increased sickness—and
death-rates in Waterloo 1st. and Lambeth Church 1st.,
and in the Inner Districts generally; and now the question
arises as to what steps (if any) can the Vestry, as a Sanitary
Authority, take to ameliorate the conditions under which
the poorer ratepayers of these particular Districts exist?
That the Vestry, as a Sanitary Authority, ought to do what
they can, no one will gainsay, and I feel confidence, in
making the following suggestions, that they will be acted
upon as far as practicable:—
1. Municipal cleanliness in its widest sense—scavenging
to be carried out as often as possible to ensure
greater efficiency, together with the sweeping