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TO THE VESTRY OF THE
Parish of Lambeth,
1889.
THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
being a Report for the year 1889 on the Vital and Sanitary
Statistics of the Parish of Lambeth.
pursuance of the provisions of the Metropolis Local Management
Act, 25 and 26 Vic., Chap. 102, Sec. 43, I beg to present to
our Vestry, a Report for the year 1889, upon the vital statistics and
sanitary condition of the parish of Lambeth.
According to an estimate made in the month of December, the
population consists of 285,784 persons. The calculation is based
on the natural increase arising during the year from the excess in
the number of births over that of the deaths, and is corrected
having a regard to the number of occupied houses, and the average
number of inhabitants therein contained. The figure of the
nsus return are necessarilly the basis of all population estimates
and calculations. But since the last official enumeration in 1881
many changes have taken place. The erection of new buildings
a