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PREFACE.
The health of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1933
has been generally satisfactory, as shown by the statistics which
appear in the Report. The population estimated by the Registrar
General is smaller than at any previous midyear in the present
century apart from the War years, being 22,100 less than it was
in 1925, and 7,147 less than at the census, 1931.
The birth rate 13.63 is again the lowest ever recorded and
barely exceeds the general death rate 13.11. The natural increase
of the population by excess of births over deaths is only 152.
The tendency to longevity in the inhabitants of the Borough
is again remarkable, since almost half the total deaths at all ages,
actually 49.36 per cent., occurred at ages of 65 years and upwards.
The epidemic of scarlet fever which prevailed in the last quarter
of the year was exceptionally mild, and the zymotic death rate,
0.38 per 1,000 population, is the lowest on record.
Thanks are gratefully tendered to members of the Maternity
and Child Welfare and the Public Health Committees for advice
and criticism, to the general practitioners and other medical men
working in the Borough, and principally to the Staff of the Public
Health Department.
A.G.G.T.
May, 1934.