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116
1895
(one
year)
1926
(one
year)
Percentage
decreases
1926 as
compared
with 1895
Yearly
averages
32 years
(1895-1926)
Percentage
decreases
1895-1926
(32 years'
averages) as
compared
with 1895
Death Rates.
General 19.50 11.49 41.0 15.04 22.9
Zymotic 2.60 0.51 80.4 1.39 46.5
Measles 0.53 0.22 58.4 0.30 43.4
Whooping Cough 0.46 0.06 86.9 0.24 47.8
Diarrhœa 0.90 0.07 92.2 0.47 47.8
Typhoid Fever 0.09 0.006 93.3 0.047 47.8
Tuberculosis (all
forms) 2.20 1.03 53.1 1.75 20.4
Tuberculosis (Consumption)
1.60 0.84 47.5 1.00 37.5
Diphtheria 0.36 0.13 63.8 0.19 47.2
Scarlet Fever 0.18 0.01 94.4 0.07 61.1
Small Pox 0.007 0.003 57.1 0.007 0.000
Infantile and Child Mortality.
Infantile (under one
year) 152.00 38.41 74.7 109.2 28.1
Child (one to 5
years) 30.00 10.60 64.7 18.8 37.4
Birth-rate 31.9 24.1 24.4 28.25 11.4
N.B.—The above rates are calculated per 1,000 of the estimated population,
with the exception of the Infantile Mortality Rate, which is per 1,000
of the total registered births.
With regard to the lessened birth-rate, I take no credit and no
responsibility; all I have been able to do has been to counteract the
bad effects of this lessening of the birth-rate by a corresponding
greater lessening of the mortality-rates amongst infants and
children between 1 and 5 years of age, leaving a net balance to
the good, as far as the district of Lambeth is concerned.
I leave the district of Lambeth in a very much better condition
sanitarily, and from a public health point of view, than when I took
over the reins of office, and I can honestly boast that there is no
Metropolitan District and no extra-Metropolitan or Provincial
District with a better organised Sanitary or Public Health Department,
or one doing better work. In this connection, I have only