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Lambeth 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]

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TABLE V.
DISINFECTION STATISTICS.
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Table: For eight years prior, and ten years subsequent, to the passing of the Notification of Infectious DiseasesAct; and for the year 1900.

For eight years prior, and ten years subsequent, to the passing of the Notification of Infectious Diseases

Act; and for the year 1900.

18921883188418851886188718981889Yearly average for 8 years preceding the Notification Act1890189118921893189418951896189718981899Yearly average for 10 years succeeding the Notification Act1900
No. of Cases in which BeddingAt Home332258278l662527144143.617924659334317725136821713281258.762
etc., has been disinfected.At Chamber8556162569236722902951460.413911570254630422286246224472126242429982329.22450
No. of Cases in which Bedding etc., has been destroyed.37236252857487943.7185275314224119674939274484.359
No. of articles of Bedding, etc., disinfected.15261437189522759163078312137782253.2301367479909115138022135162034921487215972792314407.627528
No. of articles of Bedding, etc., destroyed.63101114144599261267113.0333467605674544186178162126326360.11783*
Premises Disinfected and Disinfectants Supplied.727680657727736127612551277916.917221816315758965742714672108715844191465899.09124
* Including 1236 articles of clothing from a large school in Lambeth.