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that is separate water supply for flushing closets and drinking
purposes.
BIRTH AND DEATH RATE.
In the year ending 31st March, 1878, there were 8783 births,
and 5541) deaths registered in Lambeth. The births were 183
less, and the deaths 220 more than in the previous year. The
births showed an increase in each quarter of the year, viz.,
June, 2094; September, 2149; December, 2221; and March
quarter, 2319. The deaths recorded in the June quarter were
1 1418; in September, 1110; in December, 1386; and in March
quarter, 1029. After deducting strangers, the deaths referred
to the seven principal Zymotic Diseases were 61 less than in the
previous year.
Assuming the population at the middle of the year to have
been 251,517, the birth-rate for the whole of Lambeth District
was 349 per 1000, and the death-rate, deducting strangers,
19.6. If the deaths of 615 strangers brought to the hospitals
from various parts of the Metropolis and Provinces were included,
the death-rate would be 221.
1284 deaths of children under one year of age, occurred, viz.,
93 in Waterloo Read 1st, 111 in Waterloo 2nd, 131 in Lambeth
Church 1st, 289 in Lambeth Church 2nd, 229 in Kennington
1st, 114 in Kinnington 2nd, 253 in Brixton, and 64 in the
Norwood Sub Districts. The proportion per cent, of deaths
under one year to total deaths was 23.1; that of London was
24.1. The number of deaths under one year to 1000 births was
146; that of London, 150.
There died also 976 children above 1 and under 5 years, and
1094 persons aged 60 and upwards; the proportion per cent, to
deaths from all causes of the former being 17 6 per cent, and of
the latter 19.7.
In London (inner-ring) the births recorded during the four
quarters ending March, 1878, gave a birth-rate of 36.1, and the
deaths a death-rate of 22 4 per 1000 of population. Thus, the
health of the Parish of Lambeth continues to compare favorably
with that of the rest of the Metropolis.