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Total No. of Births (uncorrected)
Total Deaths under 1 year (uncorrected)
Infatile Mortality per 1,000 births (uncorrected)
Waterloo 1487 170 114.3
Lambeth Church 749 184 245.7
Kennington† 1589 204 128.7
Stockwell‡ 2007 156 77.7
Brixton 1621 224 138.2
Norwood 1197 106 88.6
Lambeth 8650 1044 1207
Inner Districts=131.7 ; Outer Districts=106.8.
*Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births, the rate is 2211
†Excluding all the Workhouse births, the rate is 149.01.
‡Excluding all the Maternity births the rate is 100.7.
N.B.—The births and deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District are
divided equally between the Inner and Outer Districts for the purpose of
calculating infantile mortality rates.
The Infantile Mortality is regarded as a sensitive index of
the Sanitary state of a District, and, judged by this index,
Lambeth Borough takes a good position amongst Sanitary
Districts. Taking the Registrar-General's old 33 Large Towns
of England and Wales, the uncorrected infantile mortalities
vary from a minimum 94 in Croydon, to a maximum 165 in
Nottingham, Lambeth and London being 120 and 116
respectively. Lambeth ranks ninth lowest in such list, 25 Towns
having higher infantile mortality rates. Taking the RegistrarGeneral's
figures, the rate for Lambeth is 120, and of the 29
Metropolitan Sanitary Districts, 18 have lesser rates than
Lambeth Borough, but the corrected rate for Lambeth is 109.
The infantile mortality statistics for Lambeth Borough during
1907 are remarkable—the lowest ever registered, and, even
allowing for the favourable meteorological conditions that
existed, are worthy of note as shewing that the methods adopted