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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]

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Table: TABLE D

TABLE D

DISTRICTS.Persons per Acre.Estimated Population (middle 1896).Total Births.Birth-rate per 1000 of the Population.Total Deaths (corrected).General Death-rate per 1000 of the Population.Small Pox.Total Deaths fromTotal Zymotic Deaths.Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 cf the Population.Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 of the Total Deaths.Diarrhœa Death-rate per 1000 of the Population.
Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Typhoid or Enteric.Ccntinued Fever.Diarrhœa.
Waterloo Road, 1st211 81419250235.429622.321452801014463.3147.51.0
,, „ 2nd141.81418594466.53062 2.9015110903012503.6155.20.9
Lambeth Church, 1st116.11880564934.534419.4021561101010542.9150.00.5
,, „ 2nd220.94IO9I168741.0591022.6039113013121321293.2139.4o.8
Kennington, 1st107.352581188635.988217.203415143407211252.4139.20.4
,, „ 2nd87.243429112525.972717.20137241502016771.8103.90.4
Brixton57.582247213725.91154I4.3033134540030331672.04142.70.4
Norwood29.22951166222.431811.501568905012551.9164.60.4
District not stated............161......1...11.........25.........
Lambeth75.1296,061959232.4509817.221856314014012411527082.438.90.5
London59.24,421,95513579630.28172118.293692940266329315564133192140093.1171.40.7

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N.B.- In the 161 cases where the District is not stated the death-rate has been calculated on the assumption that these deaths
were subdivided equally in the eight Districts. Census 1891. Return gives the area of Lambeth as 3,941 statue acres(exclusive
of tidal water and foreshore).
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