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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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II.—SANITARY WORK.
(Dealing with the sanitary circumstances and administration of the
Borough of Lambeth.)
Return shewing the Number of Notices served in the Borough
of Lambeth, from the 1st January to the 31st December, 1919.
Number of Notices served 13,259*

Table: A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES† (Public Health (London) Act.)

A. COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES† (Public Health (London) Act.)

No. of Notices served3409
No. of Infected Houses3061
Small Pox1
Scarlet Fever927
Typhoid16
Diphtheria483
Membranous Croup4
Continued Fever–
Puerperal Fever16
Erysipelas185
Cerebro-Spinal Fever11
Acute Polio-Myelitis7
Ophthalmia Neonatorum82
‡Measles813
‡German Measles187
§§Primary Pneumonia73
§§Influenzal Pneumonia154
§Encephalitis Lethargica5
§§Malaria91
§§Dysentery6
§§Trench Fever–
3061

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B. GENERAL NUISANCES AND DRAINAGE DEFECTS.
(Public Health (London) Act, and Metropolis Local Management
Acts).
No. of Notices served*†
9850
Works, Structural-
Drainage, Defective
515
* Including Measles and German Measles.
† Excluding tuberculosis.
‡ Compulsorily notifiable from January 1st, 1916.
§ Compulsorily notifiable from January 1st, 1919.
§§ Compulsorily notifiable from March 1st, 1919.