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Lambeth 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE H (I). TABLE H (I).
Shewing the estimated populations and the number of Deaths, with Death-rates in each of the Registration Sub-
Districts of the Borough during 1912. The Deaths are from all causes, and from the chief zymotic diseases, and are
corrected by adding Lambethians who die outside the Borough, by omitting strangers who die within the Borough,
and by re-distributing persons (who die in Public Institutions) into the Districts from which they have been removed during
illness.
A. Registration Sub-Districts.
| REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS. | Estimated Population (middle 1912). | Total Deaths (corrected). | General corrected Death-rate per 1000 of the Population. | Total Deaths (corrected) from | Total Zymotic Deaths. | Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Population (corrected). | Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Total Deaths (corrected). | Diarrhœa Death-rate per 10000 of the Population. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhœa. | ||||||||
| Lambeth Church | 46987 | 756 | 16.1 | ... | 31 | 2 | 4 | 15 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 31 | 85 | 1.8 | 112.4 | 6.6 |
| Kennington† | 48091 | 921 | 19.1 | ... | 23 | 1 | 7 | 12 | ... | 3 | ... | ... | 23 | 69 | 1.4 | 74.9 | 4.8 |
| Stockwell§ | 62447 | 788 | 12.6 | ... | 24 | 2 | 5 | 9 | ... | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 53 | 0.8 | 67.3 | 1.4 |
| Brixton | 77044 | 846 | 10.9 | ... | 12 | 4 | 7 | 12 | ... | 4 | ... | ... | 10 | 49 | 0.6 | 57.9 | 1.3 |
| Norwood | 62981 | 614 | 9.7 | ... | 7 | ... | 6 | 7 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 9 | 31 | 1.5 | 50.5 | 1.4 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 297550 | 3925 | 13.2 | ... | 97 | 9 | 29 | 55 | ... | 13 | 1 | 1 | 82 | 287 | 0.9 | 73.1 | 2.8 |
Of the 788 deaths in Stockwell Registration Sub-District, 438 belong to the Inner and 350 to the Outer Slockwell Sub-District.
Inner Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general 16.9, zymotic 1.5).
Outer Registration Sub-Districts—death rates (general 10.5, zymotic 0.6).
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 35 shew no addresses, and have been included in Kennington Sub-District—having occurred in
the Workhouse (14). or in the Workhouse Infirmary (21).