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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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31
England
and
Wales
126 C.Bs.
and Great
Towns
including
London
148 Smaller
Towns
Resident
Population,
25,00050,000
at
1931 census
London
Administrative
County
Lambeth
Rates per 1,000 Population :—
Notifications :
Typhoid Fever 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00
Paratyphoid Fever 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.00
Meningococcal
Infection 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.03
Scarlet Fever 1.50 1.56 1.61 1.23 0.98
Whooping Cough 3,60 3.97 3.15 3.21 3.13
Diphtheria 0.02 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.02
Erysipelas 0.17 0.19 0.16 0.17 0.14
Smallpox 0.00 0.00 — — —
Measles 8.39 8.76 8.36 6.57 7.10
Pneumonia 0.70 0.77 0.61 0.50 0.32
Poliomyelitis
Paralytic 0.13 0.12 0.11 0.08 0.09
Non do 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.03
Food Poisoning 0.17 0.16 0.14 0.25 0.35
Rates per 1,000 Total Births (Live and Still):—
(a) Notifications:—
Puerperal Pyrexia 5.81 7.43 4.33 6.03 8.08