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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 1903
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1903
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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 treatment
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.
45 vials of antitoxin have been distributed during the year.
The walls at Arlington Lodge have been repointed, and the
gutters and roof repaired, during 1903 at an estimated cost of
£28 10s. Od.
The Bacteriological Laboratory is now insured for £500.
| W.C. Accommodation | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paying. | Free. | ||||
| Vauxhall—Men only | 3 | 1 | |||
| Kennington Cross—Men only | 3 | 1 | |||
| Hercules Road | Men | 4 | 1 | ||
| Women | 3 | 1 | |||
| Brixton | Men | 3 | 1 | ||
| Women | 3 | 1 | |||
| Stockwell | Men | 3 | 1 | ||
| Women | 2 | 1 | |||
| Loughborough | Men | 3 | 1 | ||
| Women | 3 | 1 | |||
| Stangate | Men | 8 | 1 | ||
| Women | 6 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 44 | 12 | |||