[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of].

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    19 Causes of the 62 Outside Deaths Causes of Death. Male. ' Female. Whooping Cough — 1 Scarlet Fever — 1 Influenza — — Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) 7 8 Other Tubercular diseases — 2 Cancer, malignant disease 3 2 Heart disease 7 4 Bronchitis — — Pneumonia — 2 Broncho-Pneumonia — — Other Lung diseases — 1 Nephritis and Bright's disease 3 Diabetes mellitus — 1 Violent deaths 2 — Suicide 1 — Appendicitis — — Nervous diseases 4 5 Strangulated Hernia 1 — Diseases of Digestive System 1 — Syphilis 1 — Wound (gun shot, shrapnel or bomb) — — Not classified above 4 1 34 \ 28 2.—Infantile Mortality Rates. Of the 4,168 corrected deaths, 516 are infants under one year of age. The total number of registered births is 6,869, and, of these, 618 occurred at the Lying-in Hospital, and belong to districts outside the Borough, 66 occurred at the Workhouse and belong to districts outside the Borough, and 688 occurred at the Maternity Hospital and belong to districts outside the Borough. In this way, the corrected number of births (i.e., excluding all non-Lambeth Institutional births) for the Borough is 5,497*. The corrected infantile mortality (i.e., rate of corrected deaths under one year per 1,000 corrected births) is, therefore, 93.9, the annual average for the decennium 1901-10 (Borough) being 122.7. In calculating this corrected infantile mortality it must be remembered that, whilst the institutional births, that belong to outside districts, are subtracted, the births of infants of Lambethian mothers who may happen to be residing outside the Borough at the times of such births are not *The Registrar-General returns the corrected number of births for the Borough during 1917 as 5232.