Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1903
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DISINFECTION STATISTICS. For eight years prior, and twelve years subsequent, to the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act; and for the year 1903.
1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | Yearly average for 8 years preceding the Notification Act. | 1903. | |||
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No. of Cases in which Bedding, etc., has been disinfected. | At Home | 332 | 258 | 278 | 10 | 52 | 7 | 144 | 143.6 | 19 | ||
At Chamber | 85 | 56 | 162 | 509 | 236 | 722 | 902 | 951 | 460.4 | 3253 | ||
No. of Cases in which Bedding, etc., has been destroyed. | 37 | 23 | 62 | 52 | 57 | 48 | 79 | 45.7 | ||||
No. of Articles of Bedding, etc., disinfected. | 1526 | 1437 | 1895 | 2275 | 916 | 3078 | 3121 | 3778 | 2253.2 | 26957 | ||
No. of Articles of Bedding, etc., destroyed. | 63 | 104 | 114 | 144 | 59 | 92 | 61 | 267 | 113.0 | 587 | ||
Premises Disinfected and Disinfectants Supplied. | 727 | 680 | 657 | 727 | 736 | 1276 | 1255 | 1277 | 916.9 | 10984 | ||
Infectious discases dealt with. | Notifiable† | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1587 | |
Non-notifiable† | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2269 |
† vide footnote on page 128.