Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1909.

  • Lambeth (London, England)
Date:
1910
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Credit: Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1909. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 Houses.* At the time of the Census, 1901, there were within the Borough of Lambeth 41,511 inhabited houses and 1,825 un inhabited (881 in occupation and 944 not in occupation), whilst 137 were in process of building. At the time of the 1891 Census, the inhabited' houses numbered 38,899. The estimated number of inhabited houses to the middle of 1909 is 43,666, which, with an estimated population (to the middle of 1909) of 324,188 gives an average of 7.4 persons per inhabited house. Rateable Value. The rateable value of the Borough for the year ending March 31st, 1909, was £1,968,216, and a 1d. rate per £1 is estimated to produce £7,607 net for the same year, in both cases inclusive of Government property. Statistics for the County of London (uncorrected). The Registrar-General returns the estimated population of London for the middle of the year 1909 as 4,833,938, con sisting of 2,281,151 males, and 2,552,787 females, and states that there were registered during the year 38,176 marriages, 117,547 births (59,910 males and 57,637 females), and 70,682 deaths (36,354 males and 34,328 females). There were registered 6,385 deaths from the seven chief zymotic diseases.† The exccss of registered uncorrected births over deaths (i.e., the natural increment, is 46,865, and the esti mated increase of population from the middle of 1908 to the middle of 1909 is 38,181. *The definition of a house laid down by the Registrar-General for Census purposes is ''any building that is separated from the next adjoining building by an unbroken party wall. This definition has not been strictly adhered to by the Enumerators in taking the Census. †(The figures are taken from the Annual Summary [Tables 1 and 19) of the Registrar-General.