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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: The estimated number of inhabited houses to the middle of the year 1898 is 40,840, and the rateable value of the Parish on October 27th, 1898, was £1,712,289, an increase of £19,473 on the previous year, as the following Table shews:—

The estimated number of inhabited houses to the middle of the year 1898 is 40,840, and the rateable value of the Parish on October 27th, 1898, was £1,712,289, an increase of £19,473 on the previous year, as the following Table shews:—

Year.Rateable Value.
18981,712,289
18881.491,518
18891,491,851
18901,498,535
18911,526,176
18921,540,047
18931,551,023
18941,562,868
18951,575,253
18961,680,283
18971,692,816

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Yearly average for 10 years, 1887-1896, £1,561,037.
The Registrar-General returns the estimated population
of London for the middle of the year 1898 as 4,504,766,
consisting of 2,129,250 males and 2,375,516 females, and
states that there were registered during the year 42,016
marriages, 132,432 births (67,212 males and 65,220 females),
and 83,936 deaths (43,366 males and 40,570 females).
There were registered, too, 12,565 deaths from the seven
chief zymotic diseases. The excess of registered births
over deaths, i.e., the natural increment, is 48,496 and the
estimated increase of population is 41,791.
* These rateable values are the figures as settled by the Assessment
Committee in the last Supplementary Valuation List, and do not include,
therefore, any new properties that may come into txiatence after such
list is settled.