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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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II. SANITARY WORK.
Return showing the Number of Nuisances removed or abated
in the Borough of Lambeth, from the 1st January to the
31st December, 1903.
Number of Notices 13043
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES. †
(Public Health, London, Act).
No. of Infected Houses 1336
Smallpox 41
Scarlet Fever 615
Typhoid 123
Typhus —
Continued Fever 7
Diphtheria 292
Membranous Croup 9
Puerperal Fever 17
Erysipelas 232
English Cholera —
† Chickenpox remained a compulsory notifiable disease throughout
Lambeth Borough (and the rest of the Administrative County of London)
during 1903 from January 1st to January 6th, and during that period
40 cases were notified by medical men representing 36 infected houses.