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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 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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Tuberculosis
Notifications received during the year ended
31st December, 1949
Respiratory 433 (344)
Non-respiratory 29 (25)
Deaths certified 133 (135)
The notifications per 1,000 population for the past seven years
(1943-9) have been 2.21, 2.28, 2.24, 1.16, 1.68, 1.63, 2.01.

Table: Notifications received during the Year ended 31st December, 1949

Notifications received during the Year ended 31st December, 1949

Scarlet Fever250( 371)
Diphtheria22( 46)
Erysipelas30( 57)
Puerperal Fever( 2)
Puerperal Pyrexia29( 19)
Cerebro-spinal Fever2( 8)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum8( 12)
Measles1,538(2,250)
Whooping Cough235( 590)
Primary Pneumonia53( 65)
Influenzal Pneumonia42( 17)
Malaria (relapse)1( 5)
Dysentery16( 9)
Food Poisoning41( 57)
Scabies68( 125)
Typhoid1( 2)
Paratyphoid1( 3)
Polio-Myelitis32( 7)
Polioencephalitis1( —)
Encephalitis Lethargica1( -)