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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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| New Registration Sub-Districts. | Total No. of Cases Notified. | Cases treated at Home. | Cases removed to Hospital. | No. of Deaths. | Case Mortality per 100. | Rate of Persons Notified per 10000 Inhabitant. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home. | In Hospital. | Total. | ||||||
| Waterloo | 5 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | 0.0 | 1.9 |
| Lambeth Church | 5 | - | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 20.0 | 1.9 |
| Kennington | 9 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 33.3 | 1.6 |
| Stockwell | 11 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 27.3 | 1.6 |
| Brixton | 7 | 2 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 14.3 | 0.9 |
| Norwood | 12 | 3 | 9 | - | 1 | 1 | 8.3 | 1.8 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 49 | 9 | 40 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 18.4 | 1.5 |
Rate of persons notified per 1,000 inhabitants, 0.7 Inner
Districts, and 0.1 in Outer Districts.
Of the 49 Typhoid-infected houses 27 (i.e., 55.1 per cent.)
showed, on inspection, defective drains, traps, fittings or
appliances. In 4 (i.e., 8.2 per cent.), the drains themselves
were found to be defective.
16 cases out of the 49 were traced to sources outside the
Borough, and 7 were secondary cases, i.e., derived from
previous cases in the Borough. No case could be traced
definitely and conclusively to infected ice-creams, water,
milk, shell-fish, or watercress. There was a history in 8
cases of shell-fish (oysters, mussels, or periwinkles), having
been eaten by the patients notified 1 to 3 weeks previous to
the disease developing, though, in this connection, the
number of persons who eat shell-fish, and do not get
typhoid, during the same period under review, must be
remembered.