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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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TABLE K. Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1902, and in the old Parish of Lambeth since the introduction of the Notification Act, i.e., in ten years, 1891-1900.
| Disease. | Parish of Lambeth. | Annual Average of 10 years 1891- 1900 (Parish). | Borough of Lambeth, Notifications received during 1902. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | |||
| Small-Pox | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | — | 22.0 | 350 |
| Cholera | 26 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 11.5 | 1 | |
| Diphtheria | 330 | 504 | 789 | 521 | 614 | 652 | 704 | 813 | 1080 | 844 | 715.1 | 459 |
| Membranous Croup | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 26.2 | 15 |
| Erysipelas | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 352 | 325 | 294 | 330 | 234 | 347.0 | 317 |
| Scarlet Fever | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1389 | 1550 | 1375 | 1009 | 1006 | 821 | 1331.3 | 1330 |
| Typhus | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.1 | — | |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 149 | 117 | 160 | 268 | 201 | 162 | 185 | 163 | 219 | 272 | 189.6 | 213 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 25.7 | 10 |
| Puerperal | 11 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 13 | 18.9 | 17 |
| *Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 1676 | 3025 | 4070 | 2433 | 2685 | 2801 | 2663 | 2329 | 2693 | 2209 | 2658.4 | 2712 |
| Average per 1000 of population | 6.1 | 10 9 | 14.5 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 8 7 | 7 1 | 9.04 | 8.9 |
1625 cases of Chicken-Pox were notified during 1902 within the Borough of Lambeth (1560 by Medical Practitioners, and
65 by others), this disease being made compulsorily notifiable on February 7th, 1902, and remaining so up to January
6th, 1903. The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with, the following ron-notifiable infectious
diseases:—Measles, 364; Whooping Cough, 110; Consumption, 488; Cancer, 34 ; Pneumonia, etc., 33.
* Plague was made notifiable on September, 19th, 1900.