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Sanatoria for Consumptives.
There is urgent need for the provision of Sanatoria for
Metropolitan Consumptives, and it is to be hoped that the Local
Government Board will authorise the Metropolitan Asylums
Board to act as the Sanatorium Authority for London.
The expenses connected with such a scheme will be great,
more especially if all cases are to be dealt with—the disease in its
early stages, when open-air treatment will do a maximum of
good, and the disease in its late stages, when precautionary
measures are so much needed to prevent the disease spreading
to others.
EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA
During 1904, 36 deaths were registered from Influenza in the
Borough of Lambeth, as compared with 52 during 1903, and an
average of 107.5 for ten years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of
Lambeth. Of the 36 deaths, 10 were registered during the
first, 3 during the second, 4 during the third, and 19 during the
fourth quarter, of the year.
In London, there were registered 709 deaths (uncorrected),
from Influenza during 1904.
Reviewing the past ten years' history of the old Parish of
Lambeth in relation to Epidemic Influenza, it will be seen
that the disease has been practically epidemic since 1891, rising
to the maximum in 1892, 1895, 1899, and 1900. The yearly
average for ten years (1891-1900) in the old Parish of Lambeth
is 107.5, so that the 1904 statistics for the new Borough of
Lambeth show a sub-epidemic state.