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Lambeth 1908

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

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Table: TABLE D.Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the from the chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected by adding strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing from which they have been removed during illness.

TABLE D.

Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-Districts of the from the chief zymotic diseases, and are corrected by adding strangers who die within the Borough, and by re-distributing from which they have been removed during illness.

Total Deaths (corrected) fromTotal Zymotic Deaths.Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected).Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Total Deaths (corrected).Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10000 of the Population.Infantile Mortality per 1000 Births (uncorrected).
Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Typhoid or Enteric.Continued Fever.Cholera.Diarrhoea.
2410............10361.481.93.887.4
538...2......295621117.410.9225.5
11812...1......431041.9109.97.9112.4
883.........125650.980.93.970.8
9168...4......18730.975.52.2124.9
779...1......24630.990.43.784.5
424650...8...11493971.291.44.6106.7

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the corrected birth-rate = 31.1 per 1000.
the corrected birth-rate = 24.7 per 1000.
the corrected birth-rate = 24.2 per 1000.
423 belong to the Inner and 392 to the Outer Districts.
(general 16.3, zymotic, 1.5).
(general, 11.4, zymotic, 0.9).
have been included in Kennington Sub-District—having occurred in
Workhouse Infirmary (121).