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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 1895
Report on vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1895...
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DIPHTHERIA.
During 1895, 103 deaths were registered in Lambeth
from diphtheria, as compared with 138 during 1894, and an
annual average of 108.3 for the last ten years (1885 to
1894).
614 cases were notified during 1895, as compared with
521 in 1894, and an annual average of 494 for the five
years, 1890 to 1894.
Of the 614 cases notified, 172 were removed to hospital,
and 442 were treated at their homes. The case mortality
per cent. for the year is, therefore, 16.8, varying from 27.3
to 12.7, according as the cases were treated at hospital
or at home respectively.
| Ages. | Number of cases notified. | Deaths. | Death-rate per 100. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total | M. | F. | Total | ||
| 1 | |||||||
| 88 | 86 | ||||||
| 100 | 10 | ||||||
| 8 | 0.0 | ||||||
| 0.0 | |||||||
Membranous Croup might with advantage be classified
with Diphtheria—the tendency of improved methods of
diagnosis (e.g., bacteriological) being to show that these two
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