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Lambeth 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR 1907.
Area of Borough—4080.4 statute acres (exclusive of tidal water
82.1, and foreshore 31.1 statute acres respectively) divided
into 6 new Registration Sub-Districts, 4 Parliamentary
Divisions, and 9 new Wards. The Parliamentary Divisions
and new Wards are not co-extensive, but the new Registration
Sub-Districts and the new Wards are
Population—estimated middle of 1907—318538 (males 150830,
females 167708).
Density—78.1 persons per acre (exclusive of tidal water and
foreshore).
Inhabited Houses—41511 at Census, 1901.
Rateable Value—£
1956137 for year ending April 6th, 1907.
Marriages—2501, being 15.7 per 1000.
Births—8650, being 27.2 per 1000.
Deaths (corrected)—4652, being 14.6 per 1000.
Infantile Mortality—941 deaths (corrected) under 1 year being
108.8 per 1000 total uncorrected births.
Zymotic—Death-rate, 1.2 per 1000 (total deaths, 379).
Estimated increase of Population 2764, but the natural
increase or increment (i.e., excess of Births over Deaths) is
3724 (uncorrected)