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Lambeth 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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MEASLES.
The number of deaths registered in the Parish from Measles
was lower than last year, 275, including two strangers, against
155, but higher than in 1882, when 173 deaths were recorded;
2285 deaths occurred in the metropolis from this disease.
Scarlet Fever.
This Table shows the number of deaths from Scarlet Fever in the several districts in the Parish of Lambeth in each year for the last 20 years. The Strangers in the Hospitals having been deducted.
| Waterloo Road, 2nd „ | 31 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 25 | 75 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 21 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 5 |
| Lambeth Church, 1st part | 51 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 23 | 21 | 52 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 21 | 36 | 12 | 14 | 25 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 14 |
| Lambeth Church, 2nd | 34 | 24 | 11 | 13 | 50 | 42 | 77 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 61 | 20 | 8 | 50 | 52 | 12 | 8 | 18 | 14 |
| Kennington, 1st part | 24 | 24 | 17 | 15 | 37 | 43 | 107 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 61 | 22 | 18 | 29 | 22 | 17 | 23 | 17 | 16 |
| Kennington, 2nd „ | 13 | 14 | 6 | 12 | 34 | 18 | 57 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 21 | 11 | 31 | 16 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 5 | 5 |
| Brixton | 11 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 28 | 50 | 58 | 8 | 8 | 46 | 47 | 20 | 3 | 42 | 60 | 53 | 27 | 9 | 5 |
| Norwood | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 7 | 5 | — | — |
| Total Scarlet Fever, Lambeth | 179 | 121 | 78 | 82 | 192 | 204 | 479 | 123 | 40 | 31 | 189 | 274 | 123 | 87 | 201 | 228 | 136 | 96 | 86 | 60 |