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Lambeth 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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F 2 CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF LAMBETH
DURING THE YEAR 1913.
| NOTIFIABLE DISEASE. | number of cases notified. | total cases notified in each locality. (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District. | total cases removed to hospital. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Lambeth Church. | Kenning ton. | Stockwell. | Brixton. | Norwood. | ||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwds. | ||||||||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 392 | 18 | 126 | 180 | 38 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 66 | 58 | 95 | 72 | 101 | 338 |
| Erysipelas | 206 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 21 | 71 | 62 | 23 | 38 | 46 | 39 | 64 | 19 | 59 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1370 | 7 | 303 | 897 | 113 | 43 | 6 | 1 | 200 | 217 | 320 | 456 | 177 | 1212 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 38 | - | - | 9 | 12 | 13 | 4 | - | 9 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 33 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 25 | - | - | - | 6 | 19 | - | - | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis* | 1571 | 1 | 18 | 174 | 296 | 772 | 285 | 25 | 354 | 337 | 252 | 387 | 241 | - |
| Other Forms of Tuberculosis † | 456 | 5 | 81 | 213 | 73 | 53 | 21 | 10 | 96 | 83 | 86 | 110 | 81 | - |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Polio myelitis acuta | 6 | - | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Opthalmia Neonatorum | 57 | 57 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 2 | - |
| Whooping Cough ‡ | 1428 | 178 | 812 | 430 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | 249 | 291 | 301 | 351 | 236 | 90 |
| 5558 | 272 | 1359 | 1919 | 561 | 1003 | 384 | 60 | 1028 | 1061 | 1123 | 1472 | 874 | 1753 | |
Isolation Hospitals, Name and Situation—Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board (one situated in the
Brixton Sub-District and Stockwell Ward of the Borough of Lambeth). Total available beds provided by
the Board—8555. Number of Diseases that can be concurrently treated— All notifiable infectious diseases
and (partly) Measles and Whooping Cough.
* Excluding all renotifications (164) of pulmonary tuberculosis, and notifications under Form C (8) of the
1908 Regulations, and under Form C (343) and Form D (269) of the 1912 Regulations.
† Excluding all renotifications (56) of non-pulmonary tuberculosis, and notifications under Form C (32)
and Form D (29).
‡ Whooping Cough became compulsorily notifiable within the Borough of Lambeth on January 1st, 1913.