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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 K. Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1905, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.
| Disease. | Parish of Lambeth. | Annual Average of 10 years 1891—1900 (Parish.) | Borough of Lambeth. Notifications received during 1905. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | |||
| Smallpox | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – | 22.0 | – |
| 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 | 439 |
| Membranous Croup | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 26.2 | 11 |
| Erysipelas | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 352 | 325 | 294 | 330 | 234 | 347.0 | 287 |
| Scarlet Fever | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1389 | 1550 | 1375 | 1009 | 1006 | 821 | 1331.3 | 1025 |
| 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 | 77 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 25.7 | 2 |
| Puerperal | 11 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 13 | 18.9 | 12 |
| Plague | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Totals | 1676 | 3025 | 4070 | 2433 | 2685 | 2801 | 2663 | 2329 | 2693 | 2209 | 2658.4 | 1853 |
| 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 | 5.9 |
The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with, the following non-notifiable infectious
diseases:—Chicken-pox, 733; Measles, 1970; Whooping Cough, 440; Consumption, 598; Cancer, 16; other
diseases (e.g. Mumps, Ringworm, Influenza, Pneumonia, etc.), 156.
* Plague was made notifiable on September 19th, 1900.