Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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TO THE VESTRY OF THE
Parish of Lambeth,
1887.
Thirty-second Annual Report
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being a Re fort for t e year ending December 31 st, 1887, on the
ViteU and Sanitary Statistics of the Parish of Lambeth.
The population of the Parish of Lambeth is estimated
at 278, 014 person n and upon this computation the statistics
contained in the tables appended to this report are calculated.
In order, as far as possible, to exclude any element of inaccuracy
from the death statistics, the record of the death
of parishioners who die in extra-parochial Institutions, and
that of those who, although they be not parishioners, yet die
in the public Institutions of Lambeth, is noted, the one to be
added to, and the other deducted from, the returns proper to
the district.
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