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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 1915
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1915
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TABLE I. Shewing the total numbers of cases of infectious diseases notified (a) compulsorily under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, and (b) voluntarily through schools and from other sources, in the Borough of Lambeth, during 1915, together with the total numbers of deaths registered from the same diseases, and the case mortality per 100 persons for each disease.
| 1st Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter. | 4th Quarter. | Totals for 1915. | Case mortality | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | Cases. | Deaths | per 100. | |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 7 | 215 | 4 | 212 | 3 | 3 | 900 | 17 | 1.9 | ||
| Diphtheria | 133 | 11 | 103 | 11 | 100 | 98 | 12 | 434 | 45 | 10.4 | |
| Membranous Croup | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 4 | — | 0.0 | |
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| TyphoidorEnteric | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 32 | 9 | |||
| Continued and Relapsing | |||||||||||
| Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 48 | 6 | 49 | 3 | 29 | 1 | 51 | 4 | 177 | 14 | 7.9 |
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 26 | 12 | 46.1 |
| *Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| *Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 13 | 7 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 2 | — | 44 | 31 | 70.5 |
| *Poliomyelitis acuta | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 4 | — | 0.0 |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 19 | — | 19 | — | 22 | — | 13 | — | 4 | — | 0.0 |
| *Whooping Cough (medical men) | 301 | 16 | 618 | 16 | 22 382 | 9 | 13 306 | 8 | 73 1,607 | 49 | 2.3 |
| ,, (other sources) | 90 | 104 | 507 | ||||||||
| *Chickenpox (March 17th to June 30th) | 66 | — | 398 | — | 9 | — | — | — | 473 | — | 0.0 |
| *Tuberculosis— | |||||||||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 257 | 123 | 270 | 102 | 258 | 86 | 235 | 102 | 1,020 | 413 | 40.5 |
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 49 | 30 | 29 | 91 | 25 | 90 | 21 | 298 | 105 | ||
| Measles | 774 | 58 | 832 | 23 | 205 | 8 | 69 | 2 | 1,880 | 91 | 4.8 |
| Chickenpox | 151 | — | 184 | — | 128 | — | 265 | — | 728 | 91 | 0.0 |
| Totals | 2,175 | 262 | 3,005 | 208 | 1,567 | 158 | 1,460 | 158 | 8,207 | 786 | 9.6 |
*Plague was made compulsory notifiable an September 19th, 1900. Cerebro-Spinal Fever on March 12th, 1907.
myelities acuta on September 1st, 1911, Opthalmia Neonatorum on March 13th, 1911. Whooping Cough on January 1st, 1913, and
Tuberculosis (all forms) on February 1st, 1913. Chiken-pox was compulsorily notifiable as follow: 1902 (February 7th to
December 31st), 1903 (January 1st to 6th), 1904 (April 8th to November 8th), and 1911 (March 22nd to June 22nd), and 1915
(March 17th to June 30th), the number of cases notified being respectively 1,560, 40, 556, 238 and 473.