Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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NOTIFICATIONS (CORRECTED) EXCLUDING TUBERCULOSIS
Disease | 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter | Totals | Grand | |||||
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M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | Total | |
Scarlet Fever | 10 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 30 | 35 | 65 |
Whooping Cough | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 30 | 34 | 64 |
Acute Poliomyelitis Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Measles | 11 | 15 | 22 | 16 | 25 | 19 | 206 | 209 | 264 | 259 | 523 |
Dysentery | 13 | 16 | 23 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 37 | 45 | 83 | 88 | 171 |
Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Pneumonia | 9 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | 7 | 5 | 24 | 11 | 35 |
Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
Acute Encephalitis (Post Infectious) | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Food Poisoning | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | 23 | - | 26 | - | 10 | - | 3 | - | 62 | 62 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | 17 | 14 | 31 |
Scabies | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 17 |
TOTALS | 56 | 82 | 92 | 95 | 61 | 61 | 267 | 287 | 476 | 525 | 1001 |