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6. Diseases of the Reproductive System, Integumentary
System, Locomotive System, Lymphatics,
Organs of Special Senses, etc., caused together
89 deaths.
Class VII.—Deaths from Violence.
219 deaths in all, including 178 from Accidents, 19
from Burns and Scalds, 12 from Drowning, 57 from
Suffocation in bed (53 being infants under 1 year) 33
from Suicide, and 8 from Homicide.
Class VIII.—Other Causes.
258 deaths were registered in this class, consisting of
deaths from Dropsy, Tumours, Haemorrhages, or other
ill-defined or non-specified causes.
Different rates of mortality from different diseases or
groups of diseases (also sub-divided as to Districts) are given
in terms of the total deaths in Tables T and W ; whilst
Table T gives also the deaths from the chief Infantile
Diseases, expressed in terms of the infantile population (or
number of births). Allowing for the slight differences
between corrected and uncorrected death returns, it will be
noted that, in regard to both infantile and other diseases,
Lambeth again compares favourably with London.
Deaths amongst infants under one year are a sensitive
index (amongst others) of the sanitary state of a Community,
and in this respect the Lambeth statistics, as a
whole, are satisfactory. Table F is important, too, in this
connection, as comparing the Lambeth Statistics with those
for London as a whole, taken in different age-periods.