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Summary.
I. General Hospitals 148
II. Special and Fever Hospitals 181
III. Infirmaries and Workhouses 6
IV. Asylums 126
V. Elsewhere (Unclassifiable) 24
485
Whether we take the corrected or uncorrected death-rates
for Lambeth (as a whole), they are again satisfactory for
the year 1899, whilst on examining the death-rates more
closely, e.g., as to age-periods, and special diseases, we
still find cause for even greater satisfaction and congratulation.
If, however, we sub-divide the death-rate into the
several Registration Sub-Districts, we find that the Inner
District, e.g., Waterloo 1st and 2nd, Lambeth Church
1st and 2nd, have again suffered more than the Outer
Districts, e.g., Kennington 1st and 2nd, Brixton and
Norwood.
The corrected death-rate for the four Inner Districts
is 24.7 and for the four Outer, 17.2 per 1000, with corresponding
average birth-rates of 39.5 and 26.9 per 1000
respectively (remembering the fact that the Lying-inHospital
and Workhouse are in the Inner Districts).* The
Zymotic death-rate is, for the Inner Districts, 3.8, and for the
Outer Districts, 2.03 per 1000, and the Zymotic incidence
(cases notified), 10.6 and 7.9 per 1000 of the population
respectively. The Inner Wards have a larger comparative
mortality amongst children under five years of age, and
amongst infants one year of age (per 1000 births), and a
corresponding smaller mortality in persons over 60 years
of age.
*There were 514 births in the Lying-in-Hospital, and 183 in the Workhouse,
during 1899 (Vide footnote p. 10).