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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 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Influenza.
40 corrected deaths were registered from Influenza during
1923, as compared with 156, 59, 93, 293 and 819 during 1922,
1921, 1920, 1919 and 1918 respectively.
The full details of the age and sex distribution of the 156 deaths are as follows :-
| Under 1 Year. | 1 to 2 | 2 to 5 | Under 5 Years. | 5 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 40 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| f. | f. | f. | f. | f. | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 40 to 45 | 45 to 60 | 60 to 65 | 65 and over. | Over 5 Years | All Ages. | Total. | ||||||||||
| f. | 40 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | - | 6 | 4 | 1 | - | 4 | 10 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 21 | |||||
55 cases of acute influenzal pneumonia were officially notified.*
3.—"Contacts" or "Suspects," "Carriers," etc., from Abroad
or from Districts outside Lambeth Borough.
" Contacts " or " Suspects," " Carriers," etc., were watched
in connection with different diseases as follows :-Smallpox, 21 ;
cholera and plague, 2 ; plague, 10 ; and typhoid fever, 3.
Outbreaks of Infectious Diseases in Institutions.
During the summer 1923, two outbreaks of infectious disease
occurred in holiday camps, viz., diphtheria in Surrey and scarlet
fever in Kent—in the former 3 cases out of 26 and in the latter 3
cases out of 24. Both camps were broken up, disinfection was carried
out, and the scouts, cubs and officers returned to Lambeth Borough,
where they were kept under medical inspection during the respective
incubation periods of the diseases.
* 169 cases of acute primary pneumonia were also notified during 1923.