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Lambeth 1908
[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, etc., FOR 1908.
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 coextensive,
but the new Registration Sub-Districts and
the new Wards are.
Population—estimated middle of 1908—321344 (males
152159, females 169185).
Density—78.8 persons per acre (exclusive of tidal water
and fcreshore).
Inhabited Houses—41511 at Census, 1901.
Rateable Value—1966874 for year ending 31st March, 1908.
Marriages—2411, being 15.0 per 1000.
Births—8906, being 27.7 per 1000.
Deaths (corrected)—4341, being 13.5 per 1000.
Infantile Mortality—829 deaths (corrected) under 1 year being
93.1 per 1000 total uncorrected births.
Zymotic—Death-rate, 1.2 per 1000 (total deaths, 397).
Estimate increase of Population 2806 but the natural increase
or increment (i.e., excess of Births over deaths) is
4184 (uncorrected).