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Lambeth 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]
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LAMBETH PARISH.
SUMMARY Of VITAL AND MORTAL
STATISTICS, &c., FOR 1896.
Area of Parish—3,941 statute acres (exclusive of tidal
water 79, and foreshore 39, statute acres respectively),
divided into 8 Registration Sub-Districts, 4 Parliamentary
Divisions and 8 New Wards. The Parliamentary
Divisions and New Wards are co-extensive.
Population (estimated middle of 1896)—296,061 (males,
139,841; females, 156,220).
Density—75 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses—38,556 at Census, 1891.
Rateable Value—£1,680,283.
Marriages—2445, being 16'5 per 1000.
Births—9,592, being 32 4 per 1,000.
Deaths (corrected)—5,098, being 17 2 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality—1,313 under 1 year, or 136 9 per 100
births.
Zymotic—Death-Rate 2 4 per 1,000.
Increase of population 4,091; but the natural increase
or increment (i.e., excess of Births over Deaths) was
4,494.