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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 1919
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1919
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TABLE G (1).
| Disease. | Borough of Lambeth. | Annual Average, 1901-10 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average, 1891-1900 (Parish) 10 years. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914. | 1915. | 1916. | 1917. | 1918. | 1919. | |||
| Cholera | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.2 | 11.5 |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 49.9 | 22.0 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1,745 | 900 | 501 | 340 | 549 | 1,011 | 1105.1 | 1331.3 |
| Diphtheria | 550 | 434 | 432 | 563 | 484 | 548 | 379.8 | 715.1 |
| Membranous Croup | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 10.4 | 26.2 |
| Typhus | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.1 | 1.1 |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 32 | 48 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 100.5 | 189.6 |
| Continued and Relapsing | 2 | – | 19 | 3 | – | – | 4.1 | 25.7 |
| Erysipelas | 231 | 177 | 122 | 130 | 105 | 187 | 241.4 | 347.0 |
| Puerperal | 23 | 26 | 20 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 17.0 | 18.9 |
| *Plague | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| *Cerebro-spinal Fever | 5 | 44 | 38 | 31 | 23 | 13 | 11.5 | – |
| *Poliomyelitis acuta | 10 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 7 | – | – |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 57 | 73 | 83 | 67 | 50 | 82 | – | – |
| *Whooping Cough | 1,389 | 1,607 | 1,576 | 902 | – | – | – | – |
| *Measles | – | – | 2,548 | 3,224 | 2,721 | 979 | – | – |
| *German Measles | – | – | 1,212 | 1,241 | 402 | 200 | – | – |
| *Tuberculosis— | ||||||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 1,250 | 1,020 | 904 | 1,086 | 1,061 | 656 | – | – |
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 273 | 298 | 362 | 444 | 361 | 224 | – | – |
| *Chickenpox | – | 473 | – | – | 307 | – | – | – |
| *Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | 91 | – | – |
| *Dysentery | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | – | – |
| *Primary Pneumonia (Acute) | – | – | – | – | – | 74 | – | – |
| *Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute) | – | – | – | – | – | 169 | – | – |
| *Encephalitis Lethargica (Acute) | – | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | – |
| *Trench Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
* Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 19th, 1900 ; Cerebro-Spinal Fever (" Spotted Fever ") on March 12tn
1907 ; Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis acuta on September 1st, 1911 ; Opthalmia Neonatorum on March 13th, 1911; Pulmonary
Tubercolusis (Poor Law cases) on Jan. 1st, 1909, Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Hospital cases) on May Ist, 1911, Pulmonary
Tuberculosis (Private cases) on Jan. 1st, 1912, and Tuberculosis (Pulmonary and Non-pulmonary) on February 1st, 1913. Chickenpox
was compulsorily notifiable as follows : —1902 (February 7th to December 31st), 1903 (January 1st to 6th) 1904 (April 8th to
November 8th), 1911 (March 22nd to June 22nd), 1915 (March 17th to June 30th), and 1918 (March 27th to June 30th). Whooping
Cough was compulsorily notifiable from Jan. 1st, 1913, to December 31st, 1917, the numbers of cases notified being as follows
1913,1,428; 1914,1,389; 1915,1,607; 1916,1,576; and 1917, 902. Measles and German Measles became compulsorily notifiable
on January 1st, 1916. Acute encephalitis lethargica became compulsorily notifiable on January 1st, 1919, and malaria dysentery,
acute primary and influenzal pneumonia and trench fever on March 1st, 1919.
N.B.—Of the patients removed to Hospital, the following were reported not to be suffering from the diseases notified:-
Scarlet Fever 16 ; diptheria 18 ; typhoid or enteric 1 ; and cerebro-spinal fever 1.