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In the Inner New Registration Sub-districts, the Diarrhoea
death-rate per 10000 inhabitants was 3.4 as compared with 1.3
for the Outer Districts i.e., 2.6 to I—a condition of things which is
generally found to obtain, and which is readily understood when
the crowded state of the Inner Districts is remembered.
It will be noted that the 4.ft. earth temperature had a low
register during 1907, and, as a natural consequence, the
Diarrhoea deaths were diminished in numbers.
94 deaths were registered from .Enteritis The yearly
average number of deaths from Enteritis in the old Parish
of Lambeth for the 10 years 1891.1900 is 101.8. During recent
years there has been a marked improvement in the diagnosis
of deaths from diarrhceal diseases, so that, to obtain comparable
figures, attention should be paid not only to diarrhoea deaths
certified, but also to all deaths arising from diseases of an
enteritic nature, i.e., those in which the intestines are affected.
Comparison must be made with the corrected infantile
mortality rate for the Borough, which is 108.8 per 1000 births
(vide p. 31).
The female Inspectors have visited every house wherein a death
has taken place from Diarrhoea, with the result that valuable
statistics are being tabulated in connection therewith, and from
these statistics (when in sufficient numbers) important deductions
may be able, hereafter, to be drawn.