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London County Council 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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in the £. Under the Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894, the parish receives for the half-year 1st April
to 30th September, 1895, £8,348 l6s. 3d., being a relief of the rate to the extent of about 2½d. in the £
annually.
The number of persons to an acre in Lambeth, calculated on the estimated population at the
middle of 1894, is 72, the corresponding number for London being 58, and the numbers in the several
sanitary districts ranging from six in Plumstead to 212 in St. George-the-Martyr.
The population contains only a small foreign element, the last census return giving a total of
only 2,782 foreigners enumerated in the district; of these 1,136 were Germans.

Table: The annexed table compares the birth rate and marriage rate ot Lambeth in the years island 4, with the corresponding rates in London—

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The annexed table compares the birth rate and marriage rate ot Lambeth in the years island 4, with the corresponding rates in London—

	Birth rate.		Marriage rate.
	Lambeth.	London.	Lambeth.	London.
1892	33.2	30.9	15.1	17.4
1893	33.0	30.9	15.9	17.2
1894	32.8	30.1	15.7	17.0

Table: The following table compares the death rate in Lambeth from all causes and from the principal zymotic diseases with the corresponding figures for London as a whole—

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The following table compares the death rate in Lambeth from all causes and from the principal zymotic diseases with the corresponding figures for London as a whole—

	Deaths from all causes per 1,000 living.		Deaths from principal zymotic diseases per l,0OO living.
	Lambeth.	London.	Lambeth.	London
1885-91	19.8	19.9	2.67	2.70
1892	19.7	20.3	2.55	2.80
1893	20.6	20.9	2.72	3.04
1894	17.2	17.4	2.40	2.64

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The figures given above have been quoted with a view to enabling comparison to be made
between the entire sanitary area of Lambeth and the whole of London. From what has already been
said, however, it appears that between the northern and southern parts of the large parish of Lambeth
there exist differences in the conformation of the ground, in the character of the subsoil, in the age and
arrangement of the streets and buildings, and it may be added in the social condition of the inhabitants,
which materially affect the value of any inferences based upon study of the statistics of Lambeth as a
whole. If the sanitary areas which extend on the eastern or on the western side of Lambeth from the
river to the county boundary were treated in combination, and the statistics of the combined areas
studied, it would of course be found that in either case, whether in that of the area on the east or in
that of the area on the west of Lambeth, local peculiarities would be altogether lost in the general
result. In such a statement for example the density of population of St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark,
would be diluted so to speak by the comparative sparseness of population in outlying parts of
Camberwell. In a similar way it will be found that the figures for Lambeth parish in many respects
give totals which are no guide to the conditions which obtain either in the northern or in the southern
parts of the area, and it will be seen when the figures of sub-districts come to be dealt with, that they
bring to light important facts of which there is no indication in the figures relating to the entire
district.

Table: Lambeth is divided into eight sub-districts tor registration purposes ; the following table relating to the area, houses and population in these sub-districts is abstracted from the 1891 census report—

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Lambeth is divided into eight sub-districts tor registration purposes ; the following table relating to the area, houses and population in these sub-districts is abstracted from the 1891 census report—

Sub districts of Lambeth registration district.	Area in statute acres.	Houses.						Population.
		Inhabited.	Uninhabited	Building.	Inhabited.	Uninhabited.	Building.	Persons.		Males.		Females.
		1881.			1691.			1881.	1891.	1881.	1891.	1881.	1891.
1. Waterloo-road First	67	1,899	89		1,470	89	5	15,195	14,031	7,695	7,046	7,500	6,985
2. Waterloo - road Second	100	1,890	87	4	1,780	120	3	16,351	14,644	8,308	7,482	8,043	7,162
3. Lambeth Church First	162	2,253	198	9	1,999	103	12	19,876	18,075	9,927	9,087	9,949	8,988
4. Lambeth Church Second	186	4,689	79	12	4,529	191	37	39,859	39,097	19,870	19,471	19,989	19,626
5. Kennington First	490	6,390	239	71	6,909	288	14	45,232	50,586	21,447	24,730	23,785	25,856
6. Kennington Second	498	5,595	170	19	6,093	277	41	35,332	39,708	15,904	18,294	19,428	21,414
7. Brixton	1,429	9,847	740	173	11,660	756	79	62,837	73,405	27,460	32,731	35,377	40,674
8. Norwood	1,009	2,841	274	194	4,116	341	74	19,017	25,657	8,565	11,148	10,452	14,509
Lambeth	3,941	35,404	1876	482	38,556	2,165	265	253,699	275,203	119,176	129,989	134,523	145,214

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Table: The annexed table compares the birth rate and marriage rate ot Lambeth in the years island 4, with the corresponding rates in London—

Table: The following table compares the death rate in Lambeth from all causes and from the principal zymotic diseases with the corresponding figures for London as a whole—

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Table: Lambeth is divided into eight sub-districts tor registration purposes ; the following table relating to the area, houses and population in these sub-districts is abstracted from the 1891 census report—