London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
This page requires JavaScript
67
average of deaths registered is 34.7, as compared with 56 and
5 respectively as the numbers of notified cases and deaths in
the Borough of Lambeth during 1907, giving decreases of 70.5
and 85.6 per eent. respectively.
In addition, 11 of the 40 cases removed to Hospital as suffering
from Typhoid Fever were found, on further examination, not
to be suffering from that disease.
The age and sex incidence and mortality for Typhoid cases notified in Lambeth Borough during 1907 are as follow:—
| Ages. | Number of Cases Notified. | Deaths. | Death. rate per 100. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | ||
| Under 1 year | — | ||||||
| I to 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
| 5 to 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | — | — | o.o |
| 10 to 20 | 5 | 9 | 14 | — | — | — | o.o |
| 20 to 40 . | 20 | 11 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6..5 |
| 40 to 60 | 5 | 1 | 6 | — | 2 | 33.3 | |
| 60 and over | — | — | |||||
| Total | 32 | 24 | 56 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8.9 |
It will be noted that there was no case notified, and no
death registered, in infants under 1 year of age ; two cases
notified, and one death registered, amongst children between 1
and 5 yt ars of age; whilst the greatest numbers of both cases
and deaths occurred amongst persons between 10 and 40 years
of age.
The incidences of the disease per 1000 inhabitants in the
Inner and Outer Districts respectively during 1907 are 2.1 and
1.5 respectively.