Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1918
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Municipal Bacteriological Laboratory.
Year. | Sputa. Suspected Tuberculosis. Tub.Bac.found. | Blood. Suspected Typhoid or Enteric Fever. Reaction obtained. | Throat & Nose. Membranes and Secretions. Suspected Diphtheria. Klebs-Lœffler Bac. found. | Other Sundry Samples. Result obtained. | ||||||||
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Pos. | Neg. | Total | Pos. | Neg. | Total | Pos. | Neg. | Total | Pos. | Neg. | Total | |
1918 | 70 | 299 | 369 | 2 | 10 | 12* | 14 | 354 | 368 | — | 2 | 2† |
1917 | 77 | 363 | 440 | 4* | 9 | 13 | 32 | 468 | 500 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
1916 | 126 | 346 | 472 | 5 | 23 | 28 | 33 | 407 | 440 | — | 6 | 6 |
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 |
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 |
* Two of the cases were paratyphoid B.
† 2 samples of urine for suspected tubercle bacilli (both negative).
43 vials of antitoxin were distributed free of cost during 1918, under the Antitoxin Order, 1910.
N.B.—Since the Bacteriological Laboratory was inaugurated in 1899 (up to the end of the year 1918), 21,115 examinations have
been conducted there in connection with the following suspected diseases, viz.:—tuberculosis, 7,832; typhoid or enteric
fever,1,129; diphtheria, 11,840; and others, 314.