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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1898

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1898

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Table: TABLE D. Shewing the number of Births and Deaths, with Birth- and 1898. Ttie Deaths are from all causes, and from the chief outside the Parish, by omitting strangers who die within the other Districts from which they have been removed during illness. TABLE D. Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Parish during Zymotic Diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die Parish, and by re-distributing persons who die in Public Institutions in Details for London (with corrected deaths) are added for comparison.

TABLE D. Shewing the number of Births and Deaths, with Birth- and 1898. Ttie Deaths are from all causes, and from the chief outside the Parish, by omitting strangers who die within the other Districts from which they have been removed during illness. TABLE D. Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the Parish during Zymotic Diseases, and are corrected by adding Lambethians who die Parish, and by re-distributing persons who die in Public Institutions in Details for London (with corrected deaths) are added for comparison.

DISTRICTS.Fersons per Acre.Estimated Population fmiddle 1898).Total Births.Birth-rate per rooo of the Population.Total Deaths (corrected).General Death-rate per 1000 of the Population.Total Deaths fromTotal Zymotic Deaths.Zymotic Death-rate per icoo cf the Population.Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Total Deaths.Diarrhcea Death-rate per 1000 of the Population.Infantile Mortality per 1000 Births uncorrected.
Small Fox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Whocping Cough.Typhus.Typhoid or Enteric.Continued Fever.Diarrhcea.
Waterloo Road, 1st212.81426250835.634025.3...72717...3...14503.5134.60.9185.04
„ „ 2nd140.01402087362.333525.4...3248...3...11312.288.20.8113.4
Lambeth Church, 1st111.61909058130.441822.9...77411...4...30633.3144.41.6301.2
„ „ 2nd225.141864161338.583320.4...1671417...7...641252.9146.91.5164.3
Kennington, 1st108.853361188835.496718.5...5513132...8...561831.1185.61.1137.2
„ 2nd90.144852100922.570516.2...651116...4...34760.8105.20.8139.7
Brixton60.685647214325.02125314.9...1753447...4...371440.4113.40.4155.9
Norwood30.53097764120.741314.0...221910...2...7510.2118.40.2124.8
District not stated............166............11.........13............
Lambeth77.2304,073925630.4543017.9...13330115159...35...2547262.4133.70.81563
London60.3450476613243229.58203718.31306958117562157355494352124822.8152.20.9167

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N.B.—In the 166 case 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 statute acres (exclusive
of tidal water and foreshore).