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Lambeth 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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DEATH-RATES (CORRECTED) IN METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS DURING 1908

PER 1000 PERSONS LIVING.

All Causes.Principal All Diseases.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Dipthiria.Whooping Cough.Thypus.Enteric Fever.Pyrixiat (Origin uncertain).Dirrhœa.Phthisis.Death under 1 year to 1000 Births.
County of London13.81.350.310.110.150.200.050.000.531.32113
West. Paddington12.40.870.230.100 100.070.030.341.01103
Kensington .129C.920.170.050.150.040.030 480.98119
Hammersmith14.01.090.120.090.100.150.040.591 .26120
Fulham12.41.590.410.100.180.190.060.651.14116
Chelsea14.51.180.160.100.160.220.070.471.27107
City of Westminster12.60.580.130.040.090.050.030.241.23102
North.
St. Marylebone14.20.850.190.100.110.100.050.301.16101
Hampstead8.50.400.050.070.050.050.050.130 7869
St. Pancras14.71.060.190.080.090.290.040.371.51107
Islington13.21.010.230.090.160.160.050.321.24102
Stoke Newington12.30.820.180.090.020.110.070.351.0792
Hackney13.21.520.310.130.190.180.030.681.22115
Central.
Holborn16.41.070.200.130.090.140.090.422.11113
Finsbury18.62.090.450.130.160 260.120.972.15133
City of London17.70.400.150.100.050.101.7992
East.
Shoreditch17.42.090.440.250.110.200.091.002.00139
Bethnal Green17.12.480.780.300.210.320.100.771.61132
Stepney16.42.530.840.170.240.410.040.000.831.56130
Poplar15.92.260.470.210.190.420.080.891.34123
South.
Southwark16.31.760.360.110.150.230.030.881.88131
Bermondsey18.82.300.820.190.180.170.090.010.841.89144
Lambeth18.31.180.310.130.140.150.020.431.45104
Battersea12.21.190.260.130.120.210.030.441.19106
Wandsworth11.60.930.150.070.130210.020.350.9697
Camberwell12.71.060.190.080.140.190.020.441.12104
Deptford13.81.320.280.060.080.200.090.631.16122
Greenwich12.61.250.140.050.160.280.080.841.101.0
Lewisham11.01.250.290.070.270.190.030.400.8586
Woolwich11.40.920.070.070.160.240.020.361.2094

N.B.—0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no death occurred, ... is inserted.
†Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.
The above table is taken from the Registrar General's Annual Summary, and the rates for Lambeth Borough differ slightly
from those given in this Report.