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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 1904
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1904
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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, 1904.
Number of Notices 11,778*
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES. †
(Public Health, London, Act).
No. of Infected Houses 1681
Smallpox 19
Scarlet Fever 511
Typhoid 98
Typhus —
Continued Fever 4
Diphtheria 296
Membranous Croup 11
Puerperal Fever 15
Erysipelas 251
English Cholera —
* Exclusive of 10 notices served under the Housing of the Working
Classes Acts.
† Chickenpox remained a compulsory notifiable disease throughout
Lambeth Borough (and the rest of the Administrative County of London)
during 1904 from April 8th to November 8th, and during that period
556 cases were notified by medical men representing 476 infected houses.