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Norwood and Brixton have the lowest general deathrates,
and Waterloo Road 1st and 2nd, the highest; whilst
the lowest Zymotic rates are in Norwood, Brixton, Kennington
1st, and the highest in Lambeth Church 2nd, Waterloo
Road 1st, and Lambeth Church 1st.
Compared with last year the death-rate is higher, not
only in Lambeth but in London as a whole—a difference
chiefly accounted for by the increase in the numbers of
deaths from (1) infantile Diarrhœa and other diseases of the
gastro-intestinal tract (due to excessive summer heat), and
(2) Influenza (directly or indirectly).
Allowing for the general increase over the whole of
London, the Lambeth statistics are pro rata satisfactory,
and the slight improvement noticed during 1898 as compared
with the previous year in connection with the separate
mortality rates for the Inner and Outer Districts, has been
again maintained during 1899 (vide Table on page 17). In
other words, the Inner Districts do not suffer so severely as
hitherto, though there is still a greater difference between
the Inner and Outer Districts in regard to their mortality
returns than is satisfactory. No efforts must be spared to
lessen the difference, though it is practically impossible to
obliterate it, considering the different status of the
inhabitants; and the different conditions under which they
live, e.g., area or house density. Given good sanitary
conditions for the crowded Inner Districts, the difference
will be reduced to a minimum, and a Sanitary Authority be
doing all it can reasonably be expected to do.
The 5,886 corrected deaths may be further analysed and
tabulated according to age-periods, as follows :—