[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of].

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
1901
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13 THE BIRTH RATE. The number of Births registered in Lambeth during the year 1900 was 9167, as compared with 9433 for the year 1899. Of the total 9167 births, 4699 were males, and 4468 females, showing an excess of 231 males. The birth.rate for Lambeth is, therefore, 29 4 per 1,000 inhabitants (31.9 for males, and 27T for females), as com pared with 30.6 for London (33.3 for males and 28.2 for females); whilst in the various Registration Sub.Districts the birth.rates work out as shown in Table A. Tables B and C shew the number of births, and the birth.rates for the last 10 years in Lambeth, the birth.rate in Inner Districts is 38.5, and that in the Outer Districts 257, per 1000* In the Inner Wards (where the birth.rates are high) the high birth.rates help the high death.rates, owing to the great numbers of deaths amongst infants and children be tween 1 and 5 years of age so that a persistently high birth rate, instead of leading to a lower, causes a higher, death. rate, pointing to the unsatisfactory and less healthy conditions under which the inhabitants in the Inner Wards of Lambeth exist, as compared with those in the Outer Wards. It must be remembered, too, that the Lying.in Hospital and the Workhouse tend to abnormally increase the birth.rates in Waterloo Second and Lambeth Church Second Districts, the necessary corrections being given in a footnote (see p. 11). The Lambeth birth.rate is slowly, but surely, declining. *The corrected birth.rate (i.e., after subtracting the non.Lambethian births occurring in the Lying.in Hospital and the Workhouse), is 28'2. (Inner Districts =34.3, and Outer Districts=25.9).