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Lambeth 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE G.
Shewing the total numbers of cases (corrected) of infectious diseases notified compulsorily by Medical Practitioners under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, in the Borough of Lambeth, during 1923, together with the total numbers of deaths registered from the same diseases, the case mortality per 100 persons for each disease, the numbers of cases (with percentages) removed to hospital, and the numbers of infected houses.
| Cases notified. | Deaths registered. | Case Mortality per 100. | Cases removed to hospital. | Per cent, of cases removed. | Infected houses. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cholera | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | |||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 823 | 11 | 1.3 | 776 | 94.27 | 731 | |||
| Diphtheria | 580 | 48 | 8.27 | 568 | 97.93 | 525 | |||
| Membranous Croup | 4 | — | 0.0 | 4 | 100.0 | 4 | |||
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| † Typhoid or Enteric | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | 5 | 62.5 | 8 | |||
| Continued and Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Erysipelas | 107 | 2 | 1.8 | 34 | 31.77 | 107 | |||
| Puerperal Fever | 48 | 8 | 16.6 | 47 | 97.91 | 48 | |||
| *Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| *‡Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 7 | 5 | 71.4 | 6 | 85.7 | 7 | |||
| *§Polio-myelitis acuta | 10 | 2 | 20.0 | 7 | 70.0 | 10 | |||
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 60 | — | — | 8 | 13.3 | 60 | |||
| *Whooping Cough | — | 14 | — | — | — | - | |||
| *Measles | 1,103 | 21 | 1.9 | 148 | 13.4 | 925 | |||
| *German Measles | 147 | — | — | 1 | 0.68 | 121 | |||
| *Tuberculosis— | |||||||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 459 | 264 | 57.7 | — | — | — | |||
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 108 | 65 | 60.2 | — | — | — | |||
| *Chickenpox | — | - | — | — | — | — | |||
| *Malaria | 4 | - | 0.0 | — | 0.0 | 4 | |||
| *§§Dysentery | — | 4§ | — | - | — | — | |||
| *Primary Pneumonia (Acute) | 169 | 69 | 30.8 | 51 | 30.17 | 166 | |||
| *Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute) | 55 | 15 | 27.27 | 54 | |||||
| *Encephalitis Lethargica (Acute) | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 1 | 50.0 | 2 | |||
| *Trench Fever | 1 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 1 | |||
| *Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
* Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 19th, 1900, cerebro-spinal fever on March 12th, 1907, polio-myelitis
and polio-encephalitis acuta on September 1st, 1911, ophthalmia neonatorum on March 13th, 1911, glanders (human), Anthrax
(human), and hydrophobia (human), on April 26th, 1909, pulmonary tuberculosis (poor law cases) on January 1st, 1909, pulmonary
tuberculosis (hospital cases) on May 1st, 1911, pulmonary tuberculosis (private cases) on January 1st, 1912, and tuberculosis
(pulmonary and non-pulmonary),on February 1st, 1913. Chicken-Pox 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), the numbers of cases notified being respectively, 1,560, 40,
556, 238, 473 and 307. Whooping Cough was compulsorily notifiable from January 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.on January 1st, 1919, and malaria,
dysentery, pneumonia (acute primary and acute influenzal) and trench fever on March 1st, 1919.
6 Measles cases were notified by parents (or relatives), in addition to the 1103 notified cases (mentioned above).
Including 1 case of paratyphoid fever.
† Including 3 cases of post-basic meningitis.
‡ Including 1 case of polio-encephalitis acuta, which proved fatal.
§§ Deaths from dysentery in outside Institutions, the patients not having been notified as Lambeth cases during life.