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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 1899
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1899
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COMPARISON BETWEEN STATISTICS FOR 1898 AND 1899.
| Death-Rates | Birth-Rates | Infantile Mortality (uncorrected) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General. | Zymotic | |||||||
| 1899 | 1898 | 1899 | 1898 | 1899 | 1898 | 1899 | 1898 | |
| Inner Wards— | ||||||||
| Waterloo 1st | 24.9 | 25.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 32.0 | 35.6 | 225.3 | 185.0 |
| * Waterloo 2nd | 27.0 | 25.4 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 66.9 | 62.3 | 90.1 | 113.4 |
| Lambeth Church 1st | 22.7 | 22.9 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 35.7 | 30.4 | 240.8 | 301.2 |
| †Lambeth Church 2nd | 24.8 | 20.1 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 35.9 | 38.5 | 207.6 | 164.3 |
| Outer Wards— | ||||||||
| Kennington 1st | 20.2 | 18.5 | 2.7 | 11 | 34.8 | 35.4 | 165.2 | 137.2 |
| Kennington 2nd | 17.8 | 16.2 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 23.9 | 22.5 | 141.4 | 139.7 |
| Brixton | 15.4 | 14.9 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 21.9 | 25.0 | 135.8 | 155.9 |
| Norwood | 13.5 | 14.0 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 23.7 | 20.7 | 150.3 | 124.8 |
| Lambeth | 19.1 | 17.9 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 30.6 | 30.4 | 161..9 | 156.3 |
* Excluding the 514 Lying-in Hospital Births, the birth-rate i 29.9, and the infantile mortality rate 200 9.
† Excluding the 183 Workhouse Births, the birth-rate is 31.6, and the infantile mortality rate 236.1.