[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth].

  • Lambeth (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1877
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: City of London, London Metropolitan Archives

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    18 HEART DISEASE. The number of deaths from the above cause, was 238. Included in the above return for Lambeth Church 1st part are the deaths of 17 strangers in St. Thomas's Hospital. The returns of Lambeth Church 2nd part include 30 deaths from Heart Disease in the Workhouse Infirmary. CONVULSIONS. 163 Infants died of Convulsions. These occurred in the follow ing Districts:— Waterloo Road, 1st part 8 Ditto 2nd „ 25 Lambeth Church, 1st part 15 Ditto 2nd part 39 Kennington, 1st part 34 Ditto 2nd part 22 Brixton 15 Norwood 5 Total Deaths 163 If to this number be added the 201 children under 12 months old, in whose cases Convulsions were stated as one of the causes, but not the primary cause of death, the mortality under this head reaches 364, or an average of one per diem. Thus 41 children under one year died of Bronchitis and Convulsions, 13 of Marasmus and Convulsions, and the following were the principal of the other primary causes, in which Convulsions participated as a cause of death. Diarrhoea, 35; Dentition, 15; Premature Birth, 10; Whooping Cough, 9; Pneumonia, 9; Inanition, 9; Measles, 8; Congenital Syphilis, 5. CANCER. During the year, 92 persons died of Cancer in Lambeth, in cluding 15 strangers in Hospitals.