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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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| Disease | 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter | TOTALS | GRAND TOTAL | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 29 | 30 | 22 | 27 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 78 | 76 | 154 |
| Whooping Cough | 52 | 55 | 49 | 44 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 131 | 127 | 258 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | - | - | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| Non-Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Measles | 914 | 912 | 573 | 479 | 48 | 38 | 2 | 3 | 1,537 | 1,432 | 2, 969 |
| Dysentery | 16 | 22 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 32 | 36 | 68 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Pneumonia | 27 | 15 | 27 | 8 | 23 | 11 | 77 | 29 | 154 | 63 | 217 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Erysipel as | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Food Poisoning | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 27 | 31 | 58 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 39 | - | 31 | - | 21 | 17 | - | 108 | 108 | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Scabies | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 18 | 34 |
| TOTALS | 1,049 | 1,082 | 688 | 614 | 131 | 130 | 123 | 89 | 1,991 | 1,915 | 3,906 |