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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 1909

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1909

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Table: TABLE K. Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Rorough of Lambeth during 1909, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.

TABLE K. Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Rorough of Lambeth during 1909, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.

Disease.Parish of Lambeth.Annual Average of ioyrs. 1891-1900 (Parish).Borough of Lambeth Notifications received during 1900.
1891189218931894189518961897189818991900
Smallpox322992651162-1-22.0-
Cholera42623101661873211.5-
Diphtheria3305047895216146527018131080844715.1373
Membranous Croup294749262327171622626.23
Erysipelas258420587315355352325294330234347.0189
Scarlet Fever858183222751198138915501375100910068211331.31164
Typhus1332-1--1-1.1-
Typhoid or Enteric149117100268201162185163219272189.649
Continued or Relapsing3334584820161-11371725.71
Puerperal1120271916192614241318.916
*Plague------------
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis-----------14
Totals16703025407024332685280126632329269322092658.41809
Average per 1000 of population6110 914.5869.49.58.97.78.77.19.045.6

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The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with, the following non-notifiable infectious diseases
during 1900:—Chicken-pox, 708; Measles, 1601; Whooping Cough, 761; Consumption, 1152; Cancer, 5; other
diseases (e.g., Mumps, Influenza, Pneumonia, Scabies, Gangrene, Dropsy, etc.), 154.
*Plague was made notifiable on September 19th. 1900.