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Lambeth 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE K.*
Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1907, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.
| Disease. | Parish of Lambeth. | Annual Average of 10 years 1891—1900 (Parish.) | Borough of Lambeth. Notifications received during 1907. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | |||
| Smallpox | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 16 | 2 | — | 1 | — | 22.0 | — |
| Cholera | 4 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 11.5 | — |
| Diphtheria | 330 | 504 | 789 | 521 | 614 | 652 | 704 | 813 | 1080 | 844 | 715.1 | 317 |
| Membranous Croup | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 26.2 | 13 |
| Erysipelas | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 352 | 325 | 294 | 330 | 234 | 347.0 | 231 |
| Scarlet Fever | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1389 | 1550 | 1375 | 1009 | 1006 | 821 | 1331.3 | 1481 |
| Typhus | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1.1 | 1 |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 149 | 117 | 160 | 268 | 201 | 162 | 185 | 163 | 219 | 272 | 1896 | 56 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 25.7 | 6 |
| Puerperal Plague | 11 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 13 | 18.9 | 22 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 13 |
| Totals | 1676 | 3025 | 4070 | 2433 | 2685 | 2801 | 2663 | 2329 | 2693 | 2209 | 2658.4 | 2140 |
| Average per 1000 of population | 6.1 | 10.9 | 14.5 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 7.1 | 9.04 | 6.6 |
The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with, the following non-notifiable infectious
diseases:—Chicken-pox, 600; Measles, 1998; Whooping Cough, 748; Consumption, 677; Cancer, 24; other
diseases (e.g. Mumps, Ringworm, Influenza, Pneumonia, etc.), 131.
† Plague was made notifiable on September 19th, 1900, and Cerebro-spinal Meningitis on March 12th, 1907.
* N.B.—Table K has been omitted by mistake from the main body of the Report, and is added
here to the Appendix.