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Lambeth 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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DISINFECTION STATISTICS.
For eight years prior, and twenty-two years subsequent, to the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act; and for the year 1913.
| Yearly average for 8 years preceding the Notification Act, 1882-1889 (Parish). | Yearly average for 11 jears succeeding the Notification Act, 1890-1900 (Parish). | Yearly average for 12 years succeeding the Notification Act, 1901-10 & 1906-12 (Borough) | 1913. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-5. | 1906-12. | ||||
| No. of Cases in which At Home | 142.8 | 240.8 | 16.6 | 1403.3 | 2420 |
| Bedding, etc., has ) been disinfected At Chamber | 452 8 | 2333.3 | 2337 0 | 2875.1 | 3555 |
| No. of Cases in which Bedding, etc., has been destroyed | 45 7 | 121.6 | 74.2 | 107.4 | 80 |
| No. of Articles of Bedding, tc, disinfected | 2253 2 | 15600.4 | 34032 4 | 22510.1 | 29881 |
| No. of Articles of Bedding, etc.. destroyed | 113 0 | 489.4 | 7100 | 329. 0 | 556 |
| Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied | 916.8 | 6191.7 | 11738.4 | 13151.0 | 19375 |
| Infectious diseases Notifiable | ... | 2408.5 | 2835.2 | 1821.4 | 3529t |
| dealt with Non.notifiable | ... | 299.3 | 2260 8 | 4076.3 | 4741 |
| * This number is increased for 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910 and J911, on account ot bedding no longer being removed to the Disinfect on Station as a routine in connection with Mettles, Whooping Cough and Chicken-pox. † Whooping: Cough became compulsorily notifiable on January 1st, 1913, so that the figures for notifiable infectious diseases for 1913 are increased. N.B.—The Statistics for 1901-1913 r-fer to the pres;nt Borough Council ; those for all previous years to the late Vestry, | |||||