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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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| Year. | Sputa. Suspected Tuberculosis. Tub. Bac. found. | Blood. Suspected Typhoid or Enteric Fever. Reaction obtained. | Throat & Nose. Membranes andSecretions. Suspected Diphtheria. Klebs-Loeffler Bac. found. | Other Sundry Samples.Result obtained. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Neg. | Total | Pos. | Neg. | Total | Pos. | Neg. | Total | Pos. | Neg. | Total | |
| 1915 | 155 | 390 | 545 | 12 | 34 | 46 | 99 | 937 | 1036 | 8 | 24 | 32* |
| 1914 | 411 | 733 | 1144 | 14 | 28 | 42 | 108 | 730 | 838 | 6 | 12 | 18 |
| 1913 | 614 | 870 | 1484 | 12 | 35 | 47 | 130 | 867 | 997 | 18 | 19 | 37 |
| 1912 | 296 | 305 | 601 | 31 | 26 | 57 | 55 | 442 | 497 | 12 | 10 | 22 |
| 1911 | 87 | 139 | 226 | 22 | 33 | 55 | 78 | 589 | 667 | 7 | 21 | 28 |
| Average of 10 years 1901-1910 (Borough) | 62.8 | 124.4 | 187.2 | 19.4 | 39.6 | 59.0 | 36.6 | 448.6 | 485.2 | 3.7 | 9.1 | 12.8 |
* Hair for tinea tonsurans 2 (negative), pleuritic effusion for tubercle bacillus (negative), urine for mucus casts and
oxalates 2 (positive), swabs from throats and noses for meningococcus 2 (negative), smearings from urethra for gonococcus
2 (positive), smearings from vagina for gonococcus 19 (4 positive and 15 negative).
N.B.—The Bacteriological Laboratory was originally established and fitted up in 1899 by the late Vestry, and since then
(up to the end of the year 1915), 18455 examinations have been conducted there, in connection with the following
suspected diseases, viz. : tuberculosis 6551, typhoid or enteric fever 1,076, diphtheria 10,532 and others 296.