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Lambeth 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Table v.
BOROUGH OF LAMBETH—Particulars of cases of acute polio-myelitis, and polio-encephalitis and epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, notified within the Borough of Lambeth, during 1913.
| Total number of Cases notified. | NUMBER | OF CASES. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 year. | 1-5 years. | 5-10 years. | 10-15 years. | 15-20 years. | 20-30 years. | Over 30 years. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis * | Cases, | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | Cases. | Deaths. | Permanent Paralysis.* | ||
| Acute Polio-myelitis | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Number of cases removed to Isolation Hospital. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Acute Polio-myelitis | _ | — | - | 2 | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | — | — | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Observations In 2 of the polio myelitis, and 2 of the cerebrospinal meningitis cases, there was some evidence of animals (cats
and dogs) being connected, in some way or other, with the illnesses.
N.B.—The usual preventive measures, that are taken in connection with other infectious diseases, were taken, together with the
routine stripping of papers off the walls of infected rooms.