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5. Diseases of the Urinary System caused 213 deaths.
6. Diseases of the Reproductive System, Integumentary
System, Locomotive System, Lymphatics, Organs of
Special Senses, etc., caused together 84 deaths.
Class VII.—Deaths from Violence.
190 deaths in all, including 153 from Accidents, 26 from
Burns and Scalds, 14 from Drowning, 25 from Suffocation
in bed (21 being infants under 1 year) and 32 from Suicide.
Cltjss VIII.—Other Causes.
148 deaths were registered in this class, consisting of deaths
from Dropsy, Tumours, Haemorrhages, or other ill-defined
or non-specified causes.
Different rates of mortality from different diseases and groups
of diseases are given in terms of the total deaths (corrected and
uncorrected) in Tables T and U; whilst Table T gives also the
deaths from the chief Infantile Diseases, expressed in terms of the
Infantile population (or number of Births). Allowing for the slight
differences between corrected and uncorrected death returns, it will
be noted that, in regard to both infantile and other diseases,
Lambeth again compares favourably with London (vide Table U).
Allowing for the favourable meteorological conditions
during 1907, favourable in so far as infantile life was
concerned, the statistics for Lambeth Borough throughout the
year are satisfactory—the corrected infantile mortality rate, as
a whole, being 108'9 per 1000 births, i.e., taking the corrected
number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age and the
corrected number of births registered. Comparing the Lambeth
statistics with those for the large Provincial Towns or the
separate Metropolitan Districts, the Lambeth Council is to be
congratulated upon the extraordinary low rate of infantile
mortality. In this connection the influence of the precautionary
measures that are being taken in Lambeth Borough must be
remembered, e.g., the systematic visiting of houses wherein
births and deaths of infants under 1 year of age have been
registered, the influence of the milk depot and the distribution
of pamphlets dealing with the proper feeding and management
of infants, &c.