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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Details as to the incidence of the disease during 1907 upon the different New Registration Subdistricts of the Borough of Lambeth are as follow :—
| New Registration Sub.Districts. | Total No. of Cases Notified. | Cases treated at Home. | Cases removed to Hospital. | No. of Deaths. | Case Mortality per 100. | Rate of Persons Notified per 10000 Inhabitants. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home. | In Hospital. | Total. | ||||||
| Waterloo. | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 4.3 | 2.7 | ||
| Lambeth Church | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 16.7 | |||
| Kennington | 11 | 9 | — | 2 | 18.2 | 2.02 | ||
| Stockwell . | 9 | — | 1 | 111 | 1.3 | |||
| Brixton | 14 | — | — | — | 0 0 | 1.7 | ||
| Norwood . | 9 | 9 | — | — | — | — | o.o | 1.4 |
| Borough of Lambeth | 56 | 16 | 40 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8.9 | |
Of the 53 Typhoid.infected houses 33 (i.e., 62.3 per cent.)
showed, on inspection, defective drains, traps, fittings or appliances.
In 7 (i.e., 13*2 per cent.), the drains themselves
were found to be defective.
19 cases out of the 56 were traced to sources outside the
Borough, and 9 were secondary cases, i.e., derived from
previous cases in the Borough. No case could be traced
definitely and conclusively to infected ice.creams, water, milk,
oysters or watercress. There was a history in 11 cases of shellfish
having been eaten by the patients notified 1 to 3 weeks
previous to the disease developing, though, in this connection,
the number of persons who eat shell.fish, and do not get typhoid,
must be remembered.
48 samples of blood were examined at the Bacteriological
Laboratory during 1907 (see p. 172) for the Widal Reaction