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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 1883
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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In the metropolis the deaths registered in the yenr numbered
80,578, making a rate of 20.4 to 1000 living. The highest death
rate on record was in 1849, when it reached 30.1.
TABLE X.
The mortality at different ages in each district of the Parish is shown below:—
| SUB-DISTRICT | Under 1 Year | 1 Year to 5 Years | 5 to 60 Years | 60 Years & Upwards | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Total. | Male | Female | Total. | Male | Female | Total. | Male | Female | Total | |
| Waterloo Road, 1st | 65 | 49 | 114 | 56 | 30 | 86 | 58 | 6l | 119 | 19 | 31 | 50 |
| Waterloo Road, 2nd | 59 | 55 | 114 | 30 | 38 | 68 | 60 | 49 | 109 | 27 | 26 | 53 |
| Lambeth Church, 1st | 78 | 42 | I120 | 69 | 63 | 12 | 261 | 184 | 445 | 56 | 48 | 104 |
| Lambeth Church, 2nd | 157 | 114 | 165 | 77 | 105 | 231 | 193 | 424 | 172 | 211 | 383 | |
| Kennington, 1st | 105 | 75 | 180 | 71 | 102 | 173 | 148 | 136 | 284 | 86 | IO9 | 195 |
| Kennington, 2nd | 70 | 49 | 119 | 35 | 41 | 76 | 98 | 106 | 204 | 56 | I02 | 158 |
| Brixton | 122 | 129 | 251 | 92 | 73 | 165 | l6o | 186 | 346 | 92 | 117 | 209 |
| Norwood | 42 | 27 | 69 | 20 | 14 | 34 | 41 | 43 | 84 | 22 | 36 | 58 |
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The death rate from the principal Zymotic diseases has been
exceptionally low during the past year. 'There has been no
epidemic and no local outbreak which has assumed any
importance.
The mortality from the principal Zymotic diseases includes
656 parishioners and 70 strangers. This shows a decrease of
219 upon last year's figures, 875 parishioners having died from
these diseases in 1882.
The deaths for each quarter were—March 167, June 120,
September 227, December 212, or deducting the strangers,
March 149, June 114, September 217, and December 176.
This represents a Zymotic rate for Lambeth of 2.5 per 1000
living. The metropolitan rate for the same period being 2*7
per 1000. Last year the rate for Lambeth was 3*3 per 1000, that
for the metropolis 3.4 per 1000.
The following 'Table shows the deaths from the principal
Zymotic diseases in each month in the year, divided so as to
correspond to the four weeks reports to the Vestry. It also
shows the season in which these diseases are most fatal.