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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE L.
Table of Civil Population, Total Registered Births and New Cases Infactious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health (by notification), during the year 1917, in the Borough of Lambeth, classified according to Diseases and Localities.
| Registration Sub- Districts. | Population at all Ages. | Total Registered Births 1917. | New Cases of Sickness in each the knowledge of the Medical during | Locality, coming to Officer of Health 1917. | Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital during 1917. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census 1911. | Estimated 1917. [Civil Population.) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||
| 1 | Fevers. | Polio-myelitis Acuta | Ophthalmia. | Whooping Coueh. | Measles. | German Measles. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal Fever. | Polio-myelitis Acuta. | Ophthalmia. | Whooping Cough. | Measles. | German Measles. | ||||||||||||
| Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued & Relapsing. | Puerperal. | Erysipelas. | Cerebro-spinal Fever. | Typhoid or Enteric. | Continued & Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lambeth Church | 47910 | 41993 | 2027 | 74 | 168 | 2 | 3 | — | 2 | 30 | 15 | 4 | 21 | 155 | 707 | 326 | 74 | 159 | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | 6 | 10 | 3 | — | 10 | 51 | 4 |
| Kennington | 48609 | 43475 | 893 | 36 | 90 | — | 2 | — | 3 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 167 | 584 | 209 | 36 | 85 | — | 2 | — | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | — | 16 | 59 | 3 |
| Stockwell | 62608 | 56992 | 1888 | 79 | 96 | 2 | 5 | — | 2 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 206 | 599 | 199 | 75 | 90 | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 4 | 8 | - | - | 8 | 48 | 3 |
| 1 | 19 | 168 | 618 | 202 | 86 | 80 | 3 | 5 | — | 2 | 5 | 2 | — | — | 7 | 207 | 14 | ||||||||||||
| Brixton | 76650 | 71052 | 1178 | 103 | 104 | 3 | 6 | — | 3 | 41 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Norwood | 62281 | 55526 | 883 | 48 | 105 | — | 1 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 206 | 716 | 305 | 41 | 79 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 4 | 13 | 3 |
| Totals | 298058 | 272038 | 6869 | 340 | 563 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 130 | 31 | 9 | 67 | 902 | 3224 | 1241 | 312 | 493 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 21 | 24 | 5 | — | 45 | 378 | 27 |
N.B. In addition to the above new cases of infectious sickness coming to
cation under the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
notified voluntarily, viz.: Chicken Pox 524, Measles 763 and Whooping
the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health by compulsory medical notifior
the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, the following cases were
Cough 368.