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 D. TABLE D.
Shewing the number of Births and Deaths with Birth-and death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Parish during
1897. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the chief Zymotic Diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die
outside the Parish by omitting strangers who die within the Parish, and by re-distributing persons who die in Public Institutions in
Details for London (with corrected deaths) are added for comparison.
Total Deaths from
Total Zymotic Deaths.
Zymotic Death-rate per
1000 of the Population.
Zymotic Death-rate per
1000 of the Total Deaths.
Diarrhoea Death-rate per
1000 of the Population.
Infantile Mortality per
1000 Births (uncorrected).
DISTRICTS.
Persons per Acre.
Estimated Population
(middle 1897).
Total Births.
Birth-rate per 1000 of
the Population.
Total Deaths
(corrccted).
General Death-rate per
1000 of the Population.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria and
Membranous Croup.
Whooping Cough.
Typhus.
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Typhoid or Enteric.
Continued Fever.
Diarrhœa.
Waterloo Road, 1st
212•4
14228
1397
49•3
449
32•9
...
11
4
15
17
...
3
...
14
64
4•6
138•9
0•9
145•3
,, ,, 2nd
141•1
14105
196
15•2
...
7
1
5
4
...
2
...
13
32
2•3
153•5
0•9
Lambeth Church, 1st
116•9
18247
597
31•6
423
23•3
...
18
5
9
21
...
...
...
30
83
4•4
190•1
1•6
314•9
,, „ 2nd
222•9
41476
1595
38•5
915
22•5
...
46
11
24
44
...
6
...
55
186
4•5
200•2
1•3
188•7
Kennington, 1st
108•1
52971
1859
35•1
933
17•9
...
13
6
28
28
...
6
...
53
134
2•6
141•8
10
133•9
2nd
88•6
44136
1110
25•1
701
16•3
...
17
8
16
8
...
...
...
17
66
1•5
93•1
0•4
118•9
Brixton
58•7
83946
2131
25•4
1115
13•5
...
25
5
41
11
...
8
...
36
126
1•5
111•9
0•4
134•2
Norwood
29•9
30239
699
| 23•1
364
12•8
...
...
1
7
7
...
1
...
18
34
1•2
93•3
0•7
143•1
District not stated
...
...
...
...
155
...
...
2
1
...
4
...
...
...
2
9
...
...
...
...
Lambeth
76•1
300048
9388
31•3
5251
17•5
...
139
42
145
144
...
26
...
238
734
2•4
139•8
o•8
I55•4
London
59•2
4463169
133618
30•0
78971
17•7
16
1927
778
2240
1837
1
557
8
4089
11453
2•6
145•1
0•9
159•2
N.B.-In the 155 cases where the District is not stated, the death-rate has been calculated on the assumption that these deaths
were sub-divided equally in the eight Districts. Census 1891, Return gives the area of Lambeth as 3, 941 statue acres (exclusive
of tidal water and foreshore).
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