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DEATH RATE.
The deaths from all causes, registered in Lambeth during
the year 1888, were 5157, of these 2619 were males and 2538
females. This number includes the deaths of 410 persons
who had been removed to the Hospitals situated in Lambeth
but who had previously lived in other parishes of the
Metropolis; on the other hand 265 parishioners died in the
outlying institutions in the Metropolis, and 84 parishioners
died in extra Metropolitan institutions. Having deducted
the former and added the latter, the number of deaths proper
to Lambeth is 5096, representing a death rate of 18.1 per
1000 persons living. The Metropolitan rate for the same
period being 18.5 per 1000.
In the Metropolis the registered deaths numbered 78,848,
and the rate was the lowest on record. Since the present
system of civil registration began, the death rate in the five
great groups of districts is as follows:—
South Districts 17.3
West Districts 16.9
Central Districts 27.2
North Districts 16.4
East Districts 21.1