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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 1905

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905

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Table: DISINFECTION STATISTICS—Continued.

DISINFECTION STATISTICS—Continued.

189018911892189318941895189618971898189919001901190219031901Yearly average for 15 yrs. succeeding the Notification Act.1905
No. of cases in which Bedding, etc., has been disinfected.
At Home17924659334317725136821713281623720196182.11
At Chamber1391157025403042220624722447212621242998245030403702325331072584.53583
No. of cases in which Bedding. etc., has been destroyed.1852753142241196493927445975134625311147
No. of Articles of Bedding, etc., disinfected.30136747990911513802213516203492148721597279232752827265410291269572635919547.651552
No. of Articles of Bedding, etc., destroyed.33346760567454418617816212632617839591006*587479561519
Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied172218163157589657427146721087158441914691249522126071098412367756713212
Infectious Diseases dealt with Notifiable†—167630254070243326852801266323292693220920254273158719382600.51853
Non-Notifiable†——————20871441339170213761894226926381185.43927

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* Including 26145 and 355 Smallpox articles disinfected and destroyed respectively in 1902.
†The Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, came into forcc on January 1st, 1892, and previous to 1896
practically no attention was paid to disinfection in connection with the non-notifiable infectious diseases.
N.B.—The Statistics for 1901-5 refer to the Borough Council; those for all previous years, to the late Vestry.