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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 1902
Report on the epidemic of smallpox 1901-2 in the Borough of Lambeth
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Table III. Shewing Total Number of London and Lambeth Smallpox Patients removed to the Asylums Board Hospitals since 1885 (the year when Smallpox patients were first removed out of London for isolation)
| London. | Lambeth. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases removed. | Deaths. | Total cases notified. | Cases removed. | Deaths. | |
| 1885 | 6146 | 1052 | 509 | 418 | 85 |
| 1886 | 99 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
| 1887 | 56 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 |
| 1888 | 62 | 8 | 1 | 1 | – |
| 1889 | 5 | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 1890 | 22 | 3 | 15 | 8 | – |
| 1891 | 63 | 8 | 3 | 2 | – |
| 1892 | 325 | 35 | 22 | 19 | 1 |
| 1893 | 2376 | 180 | 99 | 86 | 5 |
| 1894 | 1117 | 102 | 26 | 18 | 1 |
| 1895 | 941 | 64 | 51 | 43 | 2 |
| 1896 | 190 | 9 | 16 | 14 | 2 |
| 1897 | 70 | 13 | 2 | 1 | – |
| 1898 | 5 | – | – | – | – |
| 1899 | 18 | 3 | 1 | – | – |
| 1900 | 66 | 3 | – | – | – |
| 1901 | 1739 | 256 | 54 | 54 | 4 |
| 1902 | * | * | 350 | 350† | 60 |
* Returns not yet available.
† 2 patients died of malignant Smallpox before the arrival of the
ambulances. The dead bodies were at once removed to Wanless Road
Mortuary, and after disinfection buried from there.