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In the Inner Registration Sub-districts, the Diarrhoea deathrate
per 10000 inhabitants was 15.1 as compared with 6.2 for
the Outer Districts i.e., 2.4 to 1—a condition of things which is
generally found to obtain, and which is readily understood when
the crowded state of the Inner Districts is remembered.
It will be noted that the 4 ft. earth temperature had a high
register during 1906, and, as a natural consequence, the
Diarrhoea deaths were many in number.
Under the heading of Diarrhoea have been classed the 4 deaths
from Cholera-Nostras registered, as there is no reason to regard
them otherwise than as deaths from "Summer Diarrhoea"; and
also the 129 deaths registered from "Enteritis." The yearly
average number of deaths from Enteritis in the old Parish
of Lambeth for the 10 years 1891-1900 is 101.8. During recent
years there has been a marked improvement in the diagnosis
of deaths from diarrhceal diseases, so that, to obtain comparable
figures, attention should be paid not only to diarrhoea deaths
certified, but also to all deaths arising from diseases of an
enteritic nature, i.e., those in which the intestines are affected.
Comparison must be made with the corrected infantile
mortality rate for the Borough, which is 121.3 per 1000 births
(vide p. 28).
The female Inspectors have visited every house wherein a death
has taken place from Diarrhcea, with the result that valuable
statistics are being tabulated in connection therewith, and from
these statistics (when in sufficient numbers) important deductions
may be able, hereafter, to be drawn.