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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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and the yearly average of deaths registered is 34.7, as compared
with 49 and 9 respectively as the numbers of notified
cases and deaths in the Borough of Lambeth during 1909,
giving decreases of 74.2 and 73.8 per cent. respectively.
The age and sex incidence and mortality for Typhoid cases notified in Lambeth Borough during 1909 are as follow:-
| Ages. | Number of Cases Notified. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 100. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | ||
| Under 1 year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 to 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 to 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | - | - | 0.0 |
| 10 to 20 | 5 | 6 | 11 | - | 1 | 1 | 9.1 |
| 20 to 40 | 14 | 9 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 26.1 |
| 40 to 60 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 2 | - | 2 | 22.2 |
| 60 and over | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 0.0 |
| Total | 30 | 19 | 49 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 18.4 |
It will be noted that there was no case notified, and no
death registered, in infants under 1 year of age; no case
notified, and no death registered, amongst children between
1 and 5 years of age; whilst the greatest numbers of both
cases and deaths occurred amongst ptrsons between 20 and
GO vears of age.
Details as to the incidence of the disease during 1909 upon
the different New Registration Sub-districts of the Borough
of Lambeth are as follow :—