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10
ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE YEAr 1870-71,
BY GEORGE PUCKLE, M.D.
Gentlemen,
In presenting another Annual Report on the Health
and Mortality of Lambeth for the year 1870, I avail myself of
the census since taken, to calculate more accurately the number
of the population of each of its Districts.
Since the year 1861, in the absence of any exact data, I
have been in the habit of estimating the increase of the population
of Lambeth and its Districts at the same ratio that occurred
between the censuses of 1851 and 1861. In so doing, as I
remarked in my last Annual Report, I was certain that I understated
the population of some of its Districts which has
proved correct. Notwithstanding an under-estimate of the
population, I have, year after year, shown that the healthiness
of the Parish as indicated by the annual number of deaths in it,
has habitually contrasted very favorably with the entire Metropolis
of which it forms so large a part; had I calculated the
death-rate on the actual increased population, the contrast
would have been still more favorable for Lambeth.
The number of Births registered in the Parish during the
year 1870 were 7715; of which 2031 were registered in the
first quarter'; 1957 in the second quarter, 1874 in the third
quarter, and 1853 in the fourth quarter of the year.
The Births exceeded those of the previous year by 43.