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Lambeth 1915
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1915
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TABLE J. Shewing the number of medical Certificates for the compulsorily Notifiable Infectious Diseases under the notification clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1915 and during the four years 1911-1914, together with the averages for the two decennia 1891-1900 (Parish) and 1901-1910 (Borough).
| Disease. | Borough of Lambeth. | Annual Average, 1901-10 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average, 1891-1900 (Parish) 10 years. | Totals, 1915. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of cases notified. | No. of cases removed to Hospital. | Percent. of cases removed | ||||||||||||
| 1911. | 1912. | 1913. | 1914. | |||||||||||
| Cholera | 1 | — | — | — | 0.2 | 11.5 | — | — | — | |||||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | 49.9 | 22.0 | — | — | — | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 761 | 604 | 1,370 | 1,745 | 1105.1 | 1331.3 | 900 | 841 | 93.4 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 398 | 328 | 385 | 550 | 379.8 | 715.1 | 434 | 393 | 95.2 | |||||
| Membranous Croup | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 10.4 | 4 | 4 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | 0.1 | — | — | — | ||||||
| Typhoid or Enteric | 60 | 38 | 48 | 100.5 | 189.6 | 32 | 24 | 75.0 | ||||||
| Continued and Relapsing | — | 1 | 4.1 | 25.7 | — | — | — | |||||||
| Erysipelas | 241 | 216 | 206 | 231 | 241-4 | 347.0 | 177 | 46 | 25.9 | |||||
| Puerperal | 21 | 24 | 25 | 23 | 17.0 | 18.9 | 21 | 80.8 | ||||||
| *Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| *Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 9 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 11.5 | — | 44 | 29 | 65.9 | |||||
| *Poliomyelitis acuta | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | — | — | 4 | 3 | 75.0 | |||||
| *Ophthamlmia Neonatorum | 69 | 76 | 57 | 57 | - | - | 73 | - | 0.0 | |||||
| *Whooping Cough | - | - | 1,428 | 1,389 | - | - | 11 | 0.7 | ||||||
| *T uberculosis— | ||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary (primarv) | 1,057 | 1,822 | 1,571 | 1,250 | - | - | 1,020 | - | - | |||||
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | - | 456 | 273 | - | - | 298 | - | - | ||||||
| Chickenpox (March 17th to June 30th) | 238 | - | - | - | — | - | 473 | — | — | |||||
| Totals | 2,868 | 3,154 | 5,558 | 5,589 | 1912.5 | 2658.4 | 5,092 | 1,372 | 26.9 | |||||
*Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 19th, 1900, Cerebro Spinal Fever ("Spotted Fever") on March 12th,
1907, Poliomyelitis acuta on September 1st, 1911; Ophthalmia Neonatorum on March 13th, 1911, Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Poor
Law cases) on Jan. 1st, 1909, Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Hospital cases) on May 1st, 1911, Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Private cases)
on Jan. 1st, 1912, and Tuberculosis (Pulmonary and Non-pulmonary) on February 1st, 1913, and Whooping Cough on January 1st,
1913, whilst Chicken-pox was compulsorily notifiable as followss: —1902 (February 7th to December 31st), 1903 (January 1st to
6th), 1904 (April 8th to November 8th), 1911 (March 22nd to June 22nd) and 1915 (March 17th to June 30th), the numbers of cases
notified being respectively 1560, 40, 556, 238 and 473.
N.B. —Of the patients removed to Hospital, the following were reported not to be suffering from the diseases notified:—
Scarlet fever 70; diphtheria 23; typhoid or enteric 9; cerebro-spinal fever 1; Measles 5.