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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1861
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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Table III relates to the mortality from different epidemic
diseases in the entire parish, and in its several sub-divisions.
TABLE II.
Return, showing the Total Number of Births and Deaths Registered as occurring in the year 1861.
| DISTRICTS. | First Quarter. | Second Quarter. | Third Quarter. | Fourth Quarter. | The Year. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | Deaths under 5 Years. | deaths in Workhouse. | Births. | Deaths. | Deaths under 5 Years. | Deaths in Workhouse. | Births. | Deaths | Deaths under 5 Years. | Deaths in Workhouse. | Births. | Deaths. | Deaths under 5 Years. | Deaths in Workhouse. | Births. | Deaths. | Deaths under 5 Years. | Deaths in Workhouse. | |
| Waterloo Road—1st Part | 146 | 75 | 38 | ... | 175 | 79 | 43. | ... | 144 | 86 | 59 | ... | 134 | 106 | 65 | a... | 599 | 346 | 205 | ... |
| Waterloo Road—2nd Part | 236 | 131 | 55 | ... | 254 | 107 | 65 | ... | 204 | 147 | 103 | ... | 206 | 120 | 68 | ... | 900 | 505 | 291 | ... |
| Lambeth Chcrch—1st Part | 213 | 114 | 59 | ... | 198 | 105 | 65 | ... | 195 | 113 | 82 | ... | 177 | 86 | 53 | ... | 783 | 418 | 259 | ... |
| Lambeth Chcrch—2nd Part. | 308 | 237 | 91 | 90 | 304 | 210 | 85 | 68 | 256 | 215 | 116 | 59 | 308 | 199 | 83 | 62 | 1176 | 861 | 375 | 279 |
| Kensington—1st Part | 252 | 154 | 67 | ... | 245 | 121 | 53 | ... | 237 | 161 | 86 | ... | 261 | 140 | 56 | ... | 995 | 576 | 262 | ... |
| Kensington—2nd Part | 137 | 92 | 30 | ... | 144 | 72 | 23 | ... | 145 | 81 | 35 | ... | 152 | 76 | 33 | ... | 578 | 321 | 121 | ... |
| Brixton | 148 | 98 | 39 | ... | 128 | 72 | 28 | ... | 138 | 56 | 19 | ... | 117 | 79 | 30 | ... | 531 | 305 | 116 | ... |
| Norwood | 56 | 30 | 22 | 10 | 44 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 58 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 61 | 45 | 27 | 4 | 219 | 118 | 65 | 18 |
| Total | 1496 | 931 | 401 | 100 | 1492 | 792 | 373 | 71 | 1377 | 876 | 505 | 60 | 1416 | 851 | 415 | 66 | 5781 | 3450 | 1694 | 297 |
From this Table it appears that the mortality caused by
epidemic disease in 1861, was both actually and proportionally
in excess of that of 1860. The deaths from Typhus were nearly
the same; the deaths from Small-pox and Measles very considerably
less, and the deaths from Scarlatina, Whooping
Cough and Diarrhoea very considerably more than those of
last year. The number of deaths from Scarlatina rose
gradually throughout the year, until at last the disease became