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Lambeth 1900

[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 1900.
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 1900—312,152 (males,
147,441; females, 164,711).
Density—79.2 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses—38,556 at Census, 1891.
Rateable Value—£1,749,717.
Marriages—2,454, being 15 7 per 1,000.
Births—9,167, being 29.4 per 1,000.
Deaths (corrected)—5,430, being 17.4 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality—1,328 under 1 year, or 144.9 per 1,000
births.
Zymotic—Death-Rate, 16 per 1,000.
Estimated Increase of Population 4,044; but the natural
increase or increment (i.e., excess of Births over Deaths)
was 3,737.
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