London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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| Ward | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Measles | Pneumonia | Meningococcal Infection | Acute Poliom.vel itis Paralytic | Acute Poliomyelitis Non Paralytic | Dysentery | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Puerperal Pyrexia | Typhoid Fever | Food Poisoning | Erysipelas | Scabies | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marsh | 9 | 7 | 139 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 82 | 1 | 255 | ||||||
| Bishops | 13 | 14 | 172 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 218 | ||||
| Princes | 15 | 14 | 181 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 234 | |||
| Oval | 16 | 16 | 103 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 152 | ||||||||
| Springfield | 19 | 14 | 155 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 206 | |||||||
| Lansdowne | 14 | 3 | 105 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 144 | ||||
| Minet | 5 | 18 | 158 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 199 | ||||||
| Angell | 5 | 19 | 136 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 178 | |||||
| Vassall | 4 | 31 | 167 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 225 | ||||
| Grove | 5 | 14 | 66 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 101 | |||||||
| Stockwell | 3 | 13 | 108 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 134 | ||||||||
| Landor | 10 | 9 | 180 | 88 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 298 | ||||
| Ferndale | 5 | 2 | 103 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 125 | |||||||
| Town Hall | 1 | 8 | 145 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 182 | |||||
| Heme Hill | 6 | 23 | 152 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 204 | |||||
| Effra | 4 | 15 | 129 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 164 | |||||
| Tulse Hill | 3 | 7 | 127 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 152 | ||||||
| Thurlow Park | 1 | 1 | 118 | 1 | 1 | 122 | |||||||||
| Romany | 3 | 5 | 122 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 136 | ||||||||
| Leigham | 5 | 15 | 230 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 258 | |||||||
| Knight's Hill | 8 | 10 | 173 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 219 | |||||||
| TOTALS | 154 | 258 | 2,969 | 217 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 68 | 10 | 108 | 1 | 58 | 8 | 34 | 3 906 |