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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1902
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1902
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| 1902. | Sputa. Tub. Bac. found. | *Bloods. Typhoid reaction obtained. | Throat Membranes and Discharges. Klebs-Lœffler bac. found. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No. | Total. | Yes. | No. | Total. | Yes. | No. | Total. | |
| January | 8 | 9 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 7 | — | 19 | 19 |
| February | 6 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| March | 14 | 9 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| April | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| May | 10 | 12 | 22 | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| June | 14 | 18 | 32 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 20 |
| July | 16 | 7 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 15 |
| August | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| September | 6 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| October | 13 | 10 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 16 |
| November | 6 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 13 |
| December | 7 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
| Totals | 108 | 104 | 212 | 34 | 57 | 91 | 16 | 138 | 154 |
| * In 9 cases (i.e., 9 9 per cent.) the reaction was slightly (or feebly) marked. | |||||||||
Antitoxin—
The Borough Council, following the example of the late
Vestry, has continued to distribute, free of cost, to medical practitioners
practising in Lambeth Borough antitoxin for the treatmen
of Diphtheria cases, with most satisfactory results. The
value of antitoxin in the treatment of Diphtheria (early in the
disease) is now a fact, and its use, too, as a preventative, or
prophylactic, is being tried with marked results. The Borough
Council distributes gratuitously antitoxin for this latter purpose
also.
78 vials of antitoxin have been distributed during the year
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