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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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TABLE K. Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1908, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for ten years since the introduction of the Notification Act, i.e., 1891-1900.
| Disease. | Parish of Lambeth. | Annual Average of 10 years 1891—1900 (Parish.) | Borough of Lambeth. Notifications received during 1903. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | |||
| Smallpox | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | — | 22.0 | 72 |
| Cholera | 4 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 11.5 | — |
| Diphtheria | 330 | 504 | 789 | 521 | 614 | 652 | 704 | 813 | 1080 | 844 | 715.1 | 329 |
| Membranous Croup | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 26.2 | 9 |
| Erysipelas | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 352 | 325 | 294 | 330 | 284 | 347.0 | 236 |
| Scarlet Fever | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1389 | 1550 | 1375 | 1009 | 1006 | 821 | 1331.3 | 744 |
| Typhus | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1.1 | — |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 149 | 117 | 160 | 268 | 201 | 162 | 185 | 163 | 219 | 272 | 189.6 | 133 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 25.7 | 7 |
| 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 | 1547 |
| 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 | 5.03 |
356 cases of Chicken-pox were notified during 1903 within the Borough of Lambeth (40 by Medical Practitioners, and
316 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 non-notifiable infectious
diseases :—Measles, 1346 ; Whooping Cough, 325; Consumption, 269 ; Cancer, 13 ; Pneumonia, etc., 52.
* Plague was made notifiable on September 19th, 1900.