Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE H (2). TABLE H (2).
Shewing the estimated populations and the number of Deaths, with Death-rates, in each of the Wards 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.
WARDS. | 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). | Diarrhoea Death-rate per 10000 of the Population. | |||||||||
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Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued Fever. | Cholera. | Diarrhœa. | ||||||||
Marsh | 21644 | 332 | 15.3 | ... | 13 | ... | 3 | 6 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 19 | 42 | 1.9 | 126.5 | 8.8 |
Bishop's | 34175 | 424 | 13.6 | ... | 17 | 3 | 1 | 9 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 12 | 43 | 1.4 | 101.4 | 3.8 |
Prince's | 42261 | 921 | 21.8 | ... | 24 | ... | 7 | 10 | ... | 4 | ... | ... | 24 | 69 | 1.6 | 74.9 | 5.7 |
Vauxhall | 30158 | 438 | 14.3 | ... | 17 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 6 | 36 | 1.2 | 82.2 | 1.9 |
Stockwell | 31927 | 350 | 10.9 | ... | 6 | ... | 2 | 3 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 4 | 17 | 0.5 | 48.6 | 1.2 |
Brixton | 44143 | 494 | 11.2 | ... | 8 | 4 | 5 | 9 | ... | 3 | ... | ... | 8 | 37 | 0.8 | 74.9 | 1.8 |
Herne Hill | 32901 | 352 | 10.7 | ... | 5 | ... | 2 | 4 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 12 | 0.4 | 34.1 | 0.0 |
Tulse Hill | 30897 | 294 | 9.5 | ... | 3 | ... | 4 | 6 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 3 | 17 | 0.5 | 57.8 | 0.9 |
Norwood | 32084 | 320 | 9.9 | ... | 4 | ... | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6 | 14 | 0.4 | 43.7 | 1.9 |
Borough of Lambeth | 297550 | 3925 | 13.2 | ... | 97 | 9 | 29 | 55 | ... | 13 | 1 | 1 | 82 | 287 | 0.9 | 73.1 | 2.7 |
Inner Wards-death rates (general, 16 9; zymotic, 15). Outer Wards- death rates (general, 10.5; zymotic, 0.6).
N.B.—Of the total deaths (corrected), 35 show no addresses and have been included in Bishop's and Prince's Wards, having
occurred in the Workhouse Infirmary (21) or in the Workhouse (14) respectively.