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Lambeth 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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TABLE G (1).
Shewing the number of medical Certificates (corrected) for the compulsorily Notifiable Infectious Diseases under the notification clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1923 and during the two years 1921-1922, together with the averages for the three decennia 1891-1900 (Parish), 1901-1910 (Borough), and 1911-1920 (Borough).
| Disease. | Borough of Lambeth. | Annual Average, 1911-1920 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average, 1901-10 (Borough) 10 years. | Annual Average, 1891-1900 (Parish) 10 years. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921. | 1922. | 1923. | ||||
| Cholera | — | — | — | 0.1 | 0.2 | 11.5 |
| Smallpox | — | 1 | — | 0.2 | 49.9 | 22.0 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1,760 | 1,358 | 823 | 904.1 | 1105.1 | 1331.3 |
| Diphtheria | 543 | 640 | 580 | 482.7 | 379.8 | 715.1 |
| Membranous Croup | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5.5 | 10.4 | 26.2 |
| Typhus | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.1 |
| †Typhoid or Enteric | 6 | 18 | 8 | 31.9 | 100.5 | 189.6 |
| Continued and Relapsing | — | — | — | 0.8 | 4.1 | 25.7 |
| Erysipelas | 125 | 119 | 107 | 175.0 | 241.4 | 347.0 |
| Puerperal | 29 | 31 | 48 | 21.8 | 17.0 | 18.9 |
| *Plague | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| ‡Cerebro-spinal Fever | 9 | 7 | 7 | 18.2 | 11.5 | - |
| *§Poliomyelitis acuta | 4 | 4 | 10 | 7.3 | - | - |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 76 | 57 | 60 | 72.8 | - | - |
| *Whooping Cough | - | - | - | 1380.4 | _ | - |
| *Measles | 409 | 3,389 | 1,103 | 2354.2 | - | - |
| *German Measles | 215 | 227 | 147 | 635.4 | - | - |
| *Tuberculosis— | ||||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 547 | 502 | 459 | 1112.4 | - | - |
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 111 | 102 | 108 | 323.7 | - | - |
| *Chickenpox | — | — | - | - | - | - |
| *Malaria | 16 | 8 | 4 | 59.5 | - | - |
| *Dysentery | — | 2 | - | 7.0 | - | - |
| *Primary Pneumonia (Acute) | 192 | 170 | 169 | 161.5 | - | - |
| *Influenzal Pneumonia (Acute) | 48 | 106 | 55 | 126.0 | - | - |
| *Encephalitis Lethargica (Acute) | 18 | 7 | 2 | 7.0 | - | - |
| *Trench Fever | - | - | 1 | 0.0 | - | - |
| *Anthrax (human) | — | - | - | 0.1 | _ | - |
* Plague was made compulsorily notifiable on September 19th, 1900 ; cerebro-spinal fever on March 12th, 1907 ; glanders
(human), anthrax (human), and hydrophobia (human), on April 26th, 1909 ; polio-myelitis and polio-encephalitis acuta on
September 1st, 1911 ; ophthalmia neonatorum on March 13th, 1911 ; 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). 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.
N.B. Of the patients originally notified during 1923, the following were found afterwards not to be suffering from the
diseases notified—Scarlet fever, 1 ; diphtheria, 3 ; typhoid or enteric, 4 ; cerebro-spinal fever, 1 ; puerperal fever, 1; acute primary
pneumonia, 1 ; acute influenzal pneumonia, 1 ; and encephalitis lethargica acuta, 1, and are not included in the above table,
†Including 1 case of paratyphoid fever.
‡ Including 3 cases of post-basic meningitis.
§ Including 1 case of polio-encephalitis acuta.