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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 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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The T.B. Allowance Scheme: Memo. 266/T.
The operation of the scheme continues to work smoothly but
the unfair division between those who shall benefit and those who
shall not still causes much heartburning. It is to be hoped that
this arbitrary separation of sufferers into two groups will cease
when national health service schemes are in action.
| Scarlet Fever | 234 | (266) |
| Diphtheria | 53 | (65) |
| Erysipelas | 59 | (29) |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | (7) |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 17 | (28) |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 9 | (10) |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 20 | (13) |
| Measles | 1,633 | (1,809) |
| Whooping Cough | 398 | (255) |
| Primary Pneumonia | 54 | (62) |
| Influenzal Pneumonia | 26 | (13) |
| Malaria | 4 | (5) |
| Dysentery | 22 | (33) |
| Food Poisoning | 10 | (22) |
| Anthrax | — | |
| Scabies | 758 | (851) |
| Typhoid | 2 | (2) |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | (–) |
| Polio-Myelitis | — | (4) |