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Lambeth 1898
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1898
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LAMBETH PARISH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR 189S.
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 1898)—304,073 (males,
143,625; females, 160,448).
Density—77T personsjper acre.
Inhabited Houses—38,556 at Census, 1891.
Rateable Value—£1,712,289.
Marriages—2589, being 17 0 per 1000.
Births—9256, being 30'4 per 1000.
Deaths (corrected)—5430, being 17"9 per 1000.
Infantile Mortality—1426 under 1 year, or 154T per 1000
births.
Zymotic—Death-Rate, 2'4 per 1000.
Increase of population 4025; but the natural increase
or increment (i.e., excess of Births over Deaths) was
3826.