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Lambeth 1897
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1897
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LAMBETH PARISH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR 1897.
Area of Parish—3,941 statute acres (exclusive of tidal
water 79, and foreshore 39, statute acres respectively),
divided into 8 Registration Sub-Districts, 4 Parliamentary
Divisions and 8 New Wards. The Parliamentary
Divisions and New Wards are co-extensive.
Population (estimated middle of 1897)—300,048 (males,
141.724; females, 158,324).
Density—761 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses—38,556 at Census, 1891.
Rateable Value—£1,692,816.
Marriages—2445, being 16'2 per 1000.
Births—9388, being 313 per 1000.
Deaths (corrected)—5251, being 17'5 per 1000.
Infantile Mortality—1425 under 1 year, or 151-8 per 1000
births.
Zymotic—Death-Rate, 2-4 per 1000.
Increase of population 3987; but the natural increase
or increment (i.e., excess of Births over Deaths) was
4137.