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the General Lying-in Hospital, the Workhouse and the
Maternity Hospital respectively), thus:—
Total No. Total
of Births deaths under InfantileMortality per
(uncorrected). 1 year 1,000 births
(uncorrected), (uncorrected).
Waterloo* 1613 141 87.4
Lambeth Church 785 177 225.5
Kenningtont 1548 174 112.4
Stockwell‡ 2103 149 70.8
Brixton 1674 209 124.9
Norwood 1183 100 84.5
Lambeth 8906 950 106.7
Inner Districts—113.3; Outer Districts—98.2.
*Excluding all the Lying-in Hospital births, the rate is 107.4.
†Excluding all the Workhouse births, the rate is 128.5.
‡Excluding all the Maternity births the rate is 91.4.
N.B.—The births and deaths in Stockwell Registration SubDistricts
are divided equally between the Inner and Outer Districts
for the purpose of calculating infantile mortality rates
for such Districts.
The Infantile Mortality is regarded as a sensitive index of
the Sanitary state of a District, and, judged by this index,
Lambeth Borough takes a good position amongst Sanitary
Districts. Taking the Registrar-General's old 33 Large
Towns of England and Wales, the uncorrected infantile
mortalities vary from a minimum 99 in Croydon and Portsmouth
respectively to a maximum 200 in Burnley, Lambeth
and London being 106 and 113 respectively. Lambeth
ranks fifth lowest in such list, 29 Towns having
higher infantile mortality rates. Taking the RegistrarGeneral's
figures, the corrected rate for Lambeth is
93, and of the 29 Metropolitan Sanitary Districts, 4 only
have lesser rates than Lambeth Borough.