London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
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
This page requires JavaScript
Sub-divided according to the different notifiable diseases, the results show as follow:—
| Disease. | No. of Infected Houses. | Numbers shewing Defects as to | Percentage shewing Total Defects. | Percentage giving no Defects. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drains. | Traps, Fittings and Appliances. | Total. | ||||
| Smallpox | 41 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 41.5 | 58.5 |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 292 | 46 | 105 | 151 | 51.7 | 48.3 |
| Membranous Croup | 9 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 66.7 | 33.3 |
| Erysipelas | 232 | 31 | 72 | 103 | 44.4 | 55.6 |
| Scarlet Fever | 615 | 89 | 220 | 309 | 50.2 | 49.8 |
| Typhus | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Typoid | 123 | 22 | 51 | 73 | 59.4 | 40.6 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14.3 | 85.7 | |
| Puerperal | 17 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 47.1 | 52.9 |
| Totals | 1336 | 195 | 473 | 668 | 50.0 | 50.0 |
N.B.—The 36 Chicken-pox infected houses shewed defective drains in 3;
defective traps, fittings and appliances in 11; and no defects in 22. To keep
the records comparable for the past years, Chicken-pox is omitted from the
above table.