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Lambeth 1899
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1899
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LAMBETH PARISH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR 1899.
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 1899—308,108 (males,
145,531; females, 162,577).
Density—78.2 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses—38,556 at Census, 1891.
Rateable Value—£1,737,298.
Marriages—2,523, being 16'3 per 1,000.
Births—9,433, being 30 6 per 1,000.
Deaths (corrected)—5,886, being 191 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality—1,488 under 1 year, or 157.7 per 1,000
births.
Zymotic—Death-Rate, 2 5 per 1,000.
Increase of Population 4,035; but the natural increase
or increment {i.e., excess of Births over Deaths) was
3,547.