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Marsh, Bishop's, and Prince's show the highest, and Herne Hill,
Norwood, and Tulse Hill the lowest zymotic rates; and Marsh,
Bishop's, and Prince's the highest, and Norwood, Tulse Hill, and
Stockwell the lowest, zymotic incidences respectively.
During the year 1902, under the Notification Clauses of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, 2,712 cases* of Infectious
Diseases have been reported, and of this number 1,907, i.e., 70.3
per cent. were removed to the Hospitals of the Asylums Board,
or to other Hospitals, and 804, i.e., 29.7 per cent., remained
under treatment at their own homes. It is still satisfactory to
note the large percentage of cases removed to Hospital, showing
the growing favour with which the Isolation Hospitals are
being looked upon, and pointing to the fact that it is coming to be
more and more realised that infectious diseases cannot be properly
isolated in the homes of the people. The percentage removed
is the largest registered in the annals of the Borough or
of the late Vestry. Since the introduction of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, the percentages of notified infectious cases
removed are as follow:—
1891—36.6, 1894—33.9, 1897—49.0, 1900—64.5
1892—33.7, 1895—30.4, 1898—55.9, 1901—66.1
1893—23.0, 1896—43.0, 1899—61.2, 1902—70.3
Examining the removals more in detail (e.g., nature of disease),
it is seen that during 1902 in the Borough of Lambeth, the following
are the percentages : —
Smallpox 100 0 Typhoid 65.3
Scarlet Fever 79.4 Puerperal 23.5
Diphtheria
Membranous
Croup
73.4
75.6 Erysipelas 3.2
6.7
*1560 cases of Chickenpox were also notified during 1902, but no single
case was removed to Hospital. For proper comparison with previous
years, these Chickenpox cases have been omitted in dealing with the
different Tables throughout the present Report.
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