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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TABLE W.
Giving Death-rates for different groups of diseases in the various Registration SubDistricts,
calculated as percentages of the total deaths for each district.
Debility,
Atrophy, and
Inanition.
Phthisis.
Other
Tubercular
Diseases.
Cancer.
Respiratory
Diseases.
Old Age.
Rheumatism
and Gout.
Piemwture
Births.
Suffocation
in Bed.
Waterloo Road, 1st
6.8
11.8
4.3
5.1
14.9
1.4
0.5
3.2
0.9
Waterloo Road, 2nd
4.2
8.5
4.2
2.2
19.03
4.1
1.4
7.4
0.5
Lambeth Church, 1st
3.6
10. 9
4.1
2.4
16.1
1.9
0.5
5.7
0.9
Lambeth Church, 2nd
4.9
8.4
3.7
3.5
17.02
2.3
0.4
3.9
1.2
Kennington, 1st
4.9
8.5
3.05
4.3
14.5
3.4
1.3
2.9
0.5
Kennington, 2nd
46
9.1
3.3
5.8
15.7
5.1
1.1
2.6
0.3
Brixton
3.8
8.5
4.1
5.1
15.2
4.2
1.4
4.1
0.5
Norwood
6.5
10.2
1.3
6.9
13.8
6.5
0.8
2.6
0.3
District not stated
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Lambeth
4.8
9.2
3.6
4.6
15.6
3.6
0.9
3.7
0.6
N.B.—Where the Districts are not definitely stated, the deaths have been equally subdivided
amongst the eight Districts.