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regular Police Force. Roughly speaking, there are about
100 men in each barracks, and these were carefully inspected
medically with a view to discovering any latent or mild
cases of scarlet fever. Several of the cases of scarlatinal
''sore throat," that were removed to hospital from Renfrew
Road, had been sent to Renfrew Road (Lambeth) previously
from Regency Street (Westminster) for observation.
The diseases (scarlet fever and sore throat) were contracted
in London and not brought by the Police recruits
from the country. A careful inspection of the milk supply
failed to discover any explanation of the outbreak.
MEASLES AND WHOOPING COUGH.
These two non-notifiable infectious diseases cause more
deaths than all the notifiable infectious diseases together. In
the Borough of Lambeth, during 1910, 122 and 54 corrected
deaths were registered from Measles and Whooping
Cough, giving corrected death-rates per 10,000 of the population
of 3.7 and 1.7 respectively. In London, during 1910,
there were registered 1980, and 1363 total corrected deaths
from Measles and Whooping Cough, giving corresponding
corrected death-rates of 4.1 and 2.8 per 10,000 of the
population respectively.
Taking the Lambeth new Registration Sub-Districts it will
be seen that Waterloo suffered most, and Norwood least,
from Measles; whilst Kennington and Waterloo suffered
most, and Stockwell least, from Whooping Cough (vide
page 67).
The Inner Districts suffered (deaths per 10,000 of the
population) more than the Outer Districts, thus:—
Inner. Outer.
Whooping Cough 2.4 1.1
Measles 7.6 0.8
Comparing the Borough statistics for 1910 with those for
the old Parish for 10 years (1891-1900), it will be seen that
there has been a saving during 1910 of 23 deaths from