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TO THE VESTRY OF THE
Parish of Lambeth,
18 8 8.
Thirty-third Annual Report
OF THE
1 MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being a Report for the year 1888 on the Vital and Sanitary
Statistics of the Parish of Lambeth.
The vital statistics accompanying this Report arc based upon
an estimated population of 281,935. In arriving at an
approximate estimate of the actual population the natural
:increase from the excess in the number of the births over
that of the deaths is thought a safer guide than any deduction
drawn from the augmentation which was ascertained to have
taken place during the decade terminating in the last census
year. The latter indication, adopted by the Registrar-General
as a basis of calculation, gives a larger return. Having
reference, however, to the parish of Lambeth, the adoption
of a more modest estimate lessens the risks of exaggeration.
Whether or no the presumption that the growth during the
years following 1881 has maintained the same ratio as during
the decade antecedent to that year, an opinion entertained by
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