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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Tuberculosis
Notifications received during the year ended
3lst December, 1953.
Respiratory 318 (323)
Non-respiratory 29 (34)
Deaths certified 53 (65)
The notifications per 1.000 population for the past ten years
(1944-53) have been: 2.28, 2.24, 1.16, 1.68, 1.63, 2.01,
1.87, 1.86, 1.55, 1.52
| Scarlet Fever | 173 | (257) |
| Diphtheria | ||
| Erysipelas | 15 | (27) |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 66 | (73) |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | (8) |
| Measles | 1303 | (2.366) |
| Whooping Cough | 784 | (305) |
| Primary Pneumonia Influenzal Pneumonia | 189 | (125) |
| Malaria (relapse) | 11 | |
| ,, (indigenous) | 2 | |
| Dysentery | 59 | (38) |
| Food Poisoning | 130 | (49) |
| Scabies | 30 | (36) |
| Typhoid | 1 | |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | (1) |
| Polio-Myelitis (Paralytic) | 13 | (13) |
| ,, (Non-Paralytic) | 5 | (5) |
| Polioencephalitis | ||
| Meningococcal Infection | 7 | (8) |
| Encephalitis (Infectious) | 1 | (2) |
| ,, (Post-Infective) | 1 | (1) |