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92
Deaths from New Registration
sub-Districts.
Phthisis
Tabes. Mes.
and Tub. Men.
Other form
Tuberculosis
Total Deaths
Tuberculosis
Rate per 1000
living.
Waterloo 2 5 3 50 1.9
Lambeth Church 54 4 7 65 25
Kennington 85 7 21 113 2.03
Stockwell 67 19 10 96 1.4
Brixton 74 15 15 104 1.2
Norwood 41 15 10 66 0.9
Borough of
Lambeth 363 65 66 494 1.5
Inner Districts—1.9 per 1000 living.
Outer Districts—1.2 per 1000 living.
N.B.—The deaths in the Stockwell Sub-District have been equally
divided between the Inner and Outer Districts for the purpose of calculating
rates in this Table.
The tuberculosis mortality rate per 1000 living during 1910
is 1.5 as compared with 1.7, 1.7, 1.9, 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0 during
1909, 1908, 1907, 190G, 1905 and 1904, respectively.
173 samples of sputum were examined bacteriologically
during 1910, and in 77 i.e., 44.5 per cent., tubercle bacilli
were found (vide p. 205).
The distribution of consumption or pulmonary phthisis,
as a disease, can be guaged from the notifications that have
been received from all sources, viz.: (1) under (a) the voluntary
Lambeth Notification (Consumption) Scheme, 1902,