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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: 46 47 TABLE L. TABLE L. Table of Civil Population, Births and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health (by notification), during the year 1915, in the Borough of Lambeth, classified according to Diseases and Localities. [Local Government Board Old Table B.]

46 47 TABLE L. TABLE L. Table of Civil Population, Births and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health (by notification), during the year 1915, in the Borough of Lambeth, classified according to Diseases and Localities. [Local Government Board Old Table B.]

Registration Sub-Districts.Population at all Ages.Registered Births 1915.New Cases of Sickness in each the knowledge of the Medical duringLocality, coming to Officer of Health 1915.Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital during 1915.
Census 1911.Estimated 1915. [Civil Population.)123456789101112123456789101112
Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cerebro-spinal Fever.Polio-myelitis Acuta.Ophthalmia.Whooping Cough.Chicken-Pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Erysipelas.Cerebro-spinal Fever.Polio-myelitis Acuta.Ophthalmia.Whooping Cough.Chicken-Pox.
Typhoid or Enteric.Continued & Relapsing.Puerperal.Erysipelas.Typhoid or Enteric.Continued & Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)
Lambeth Church479104399224061428135—42417—94481391347133—41114——4—
Kennington4860945479105814656—7—33322223157614251_6—34—2—2—
Stockwell626085956519131407817—63411—18240821337516—5127——2—
Brixton76650741441453196139—12—758322027172179127—8—4811—1—
Norwood6228161008104827680—1—62811—433310425369—1—5117——2—
Totals2980582841887878900434432—26177444731607473841393424—2146293—11—

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N.B.—-In addition to the above new cases of infectious sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health by compulsory medical
cation under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, the following cases were
notified voluntarily, viz.: Chicken Pox 728, Measles 1880, and Whooping Cough 507.