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6. Diseases of the Reproductive System, Integumentary
System, Locomotive System, Lymphatics,
Organs of Special Senses, etc., caused together
77 deaths.
Class VII.—Deaths from Violence.
195 deaths in all, including 168 from Accidents, 18
from Burns and Scalds, 14 from Drowning, 40 from
Suffocation in bed (36 being infants under 1 year), 23
from Suicide, and 4 from Homicide.
Class VIII.—Other Causes.
219 deaths were registered in this class, consisting or
deaths from Dropsy, Tumours, Hæmorrhages, or other
ill-defined or non-specified causes.
Different rates of mortality from different diseases of
groups of diseases (also sub-divided as to Districts) are
given in terms of the total deaths in Tables T and W;
whilst Table T gives also the deaths from the chief
Infantile Diseases, expressed in terms of the infantile
population (or number of births). Allowing for the slight
differences between corrected and uncorrected death
returns, it will be noted that, in regard to both infantile
and other diseases, Lambeth again compares favourably
with London.
Deaths amongst infants under one year are a sensitive
ndex (amongst others) of the sanitary state of a Community,
and in this respect the Lambeth statistics, as a
whole, are satisfactory. Table F is important, too, in this
connection, as comparing the Lambeth Statistics with those
for London as a whole, taken in different age-periods.