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Lambeth 1916
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1916
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TABLE V. Local Government Board New Tables. poliomyelitis, and polio-encephalitis and cerebro-spinal fever, of Lambeth, during 1916.
| Total number of Cases notified. | NUMBER OF CASES (excluding Military Cases). | I | —I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 0-1 year. | 1-5 years. | 5-10 years. | 10-15 years. | 15-20 years. | 20-30 years. | Over 30 years. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | 2 | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis. | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis. | ||
| Acute Polio-myelitis | 12 | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 4 | – | 4 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever† ‡ | 29 | 4 | 1 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | 3 | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | 3 | – |
| Number of cases removed to Isolation Hospital. | with permanent Paralysis of one or more groups of muscles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Acute Polio-myelitis | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
‡ Included in the above 29 notified civilian cases is a Belgian refugee 11 or at home (? indirect infection), whilst 2 others were alleght
of the 29 cases were the children of soldiers serving in the Army abroad,
infection whilst visiting Camp and Barracks respectively.