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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 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE D.
rates (general, zymotic and diarrhœal), in each of the Registration
causes, and from the 7 chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected by
strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing persons
have been removed into such Public Institutions for treatment.
| Total Deaths (corrected) from | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1,000 of the Population (corrected). | Diarrhœa Death-rate per 10,000 of the Population (corrected). | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria and *Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | † Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhœa and Dysentery | |||
| 10 | 5 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | 29 | 0.7 | 0.7 |
| 10 | 9 | — | 1 | — | — | 4 | 30 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| 3 | 5 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 16 | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| 5 | 9 | — | 1 | — | — | 9 | 25 | 0.3 | 1.05 |
| 5 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 21 | 0.3 | 1.4 |
| 33 | 29 | — | 3 | — | — | 32 | 121 | 0.4 | 1.0 |
Asylum outside the Borough (the patient being chargeable to Lambeth)
to the Inner and 434 to the outer Stockwell Sub-District respectively.
(general 13.2, zymotic 0.5, diarrhœal 0.06 per 1,000 population).
(general 11.9, zymotic 0.3, diarrhœal 0.1 per 1,000 population).