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the death rate of the entire parish was 21¼ per thousand,
while that of the South Districts was 22¾, and that of London
23¼. Of the eight ecclesiastical divisions of the parish, the
death rates in five were below, and in three were above that
of the entire parish; the death rates of the five more healthy
districts being as follows;—
BRIXTON - - - 15¼ per thousand.
Kennington—2nd Part . - 15¾ „ „
Norwood - - - 15¾ „ „
Kennington—1st Part - - -18½
Lambeth Church—1st Part - 21 „ „
While those of the three less healthy districts were
as follows:—
Waterloo Road—1st Part - 22½ „ „
Waterloo Road—2nd Part - - 27 „ „
Lambeth Church—2nd Part - - 29 ,, „
The high rate of mortality in the Lambeth Church 2nd
district is due to the number of deaths occurring in the
Workhouse. Of the total 861 deaths in the district, 279, or
very nearly one third took place in the Workhouse.
In the Annual Report of the Vestry for 1860, some
remarks were made upon the results of the Census in Lambeth.
Since then, further details have been published, from which
the rates of increase in the above Table IV have been calculated
out. From this table it appears that the population of every
district in the parish has increased between 1851 and 1861,
whereas during the previous decennial period the population
of the Lambeth Church 1st district actually retrograded. But
with the exception of this Lambeth Church 1st district, and of
the Norwood district, the rate of increase during the 1851—61
period was less than the rate of increase during the 1841—51
period. In round numbers, the population of the Lambeth
Church 1st district increased at the rate of ¾ of a per cent.