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Public Health Department,
333, Kennington Road, S.E.
March, 1908.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
In presenting the 1907 Report, dealing with the Vital and
Mortal Statistics of the Borough of Lambeth, it is my privilege
to be able to chronicle the lowest mortality and zymotic rates in
the history of the Borough, or of the old Parish. The infantile
mortality rate is extraordinarily low—a fact due in part to the
favourable meteorological conditions that existed during the
year, and in part to the precautionary measures that are being
taken by the Council for the prevention of Infantile Mortality,
more especially the influence of the milk depot and the
systematic visiting of houses wherein births have occurred, or
deaths of infants under one year of age.
Calling for special congratulation are the decisions arrived at
during 1907 by the Council (1) to appoint a Health Visitor, and
(2) to adopt the Notification of Births Act, 1907, throughout the
Borough.
The Registrar-General's alterations of the registration subdistricts,
which now practically coincide, and are co-terminous,
with the Wards, are adopted in this Report, and will be adopted
in all future Reports.