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In the Inner New Registration Sub-Districts, the Diarrhœa
death-rate per 10000 inhabitants was 6.9 as compared with
2.9 for the Outer Districts, i.e., 2.4 to 1—a condition of
things which is generally found to obtain, and which is
readily understood when the crowded state of the Inner Districts
is remembered.
It may be noted that the 4-ft. earth temperature had a low
register during 1908, and, as a natural consequence, the
Diarrhecea deaths were diminished in numbers.
62 deaths were registered from "Enteritis." The yearly
average number of deaths from Enteritis in the old Parish
of Lambeth for 10 years, 1891-1900, is 101.8. During recent
years there has been a marked improvement in the diagnosis
of deaths from diarrhœal diseases, so that, to obtain comparable
figures, attention should be paid not only to diarrhoea
deaths certified, but also to all deaths arising from diseases
of an enteritic nature, i.e., those in which the intestines are
affected.
Comparison must be made with the corrected infantile
mortality rate for the Borough, which is 93.1 per 1000 births
(vide p. 29).
The female Inspectors have visited every house wherein a
death has been registered as having taken place from
Diarrhcea, with the result that valuable statistics are being
tabulated in connection therewith, and from these statistics
(when in sufficient numbers) important deductions may be
able, hereafter, to be drawn.