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Registration
Sub-Districts.
Total No. of
Cases notified.
Cases treated
at Home.
Cases removed
to Hospital.
No. of Deaths.
At Home.
In
Hospital.
Total.
Case Mortality
per 100.
Rate of persons
Notified per
10,000 Inhabitants.
Waterloo Rd. 1st 8 4 4 ... 1 1 12.5 8.8
Waterloo 2nd 16 2 14 1 3 4 25.0
Lambeth Ch. 1st 26 11 15 ... 2 2 7.7 14.1
Lambeth Ch. 2nd 45 7 38 1 6 7 15.6 11.3
Kennington 1st 27 6 21 2 5 7 25.9 5.04
Kennington 2nd 23 10 13 2 2 4 17.4 5.3
Brixton 58 29 29 2 7 9 15.5 6.8
Norwood 10 5 5 3 1 4 40.0 2.7
Borough of
Lambeth 213 74 139 11 27 38 17.8 6.9
The incidence of Typhoid in the Inner as compared with the
Outer Districts is as 2 to 1. Of the 206 Typhoid-infected
houses, 107 (i.e., 51.9 per cent.) showed on inspection, defective
drains, traps, fittings or appliances. In 31 (i.e., 15.05 per cent.)
the drains themselves were found to be defective. 11 cases
were traced to sources outside the Borough, and 5 were secondary
cases, i.e., derived from previous cases in the Borough. No case
could be traced definitely to infected water, milk, oysters or other
shell-fish, ice-creams, or other well-known channels, through
which Typhoid has been again and again stated to spread.
91 samples of blood were examined at the Bacteriological
Laboratory during 1902 (see p. 182) for the Widal reaction of
Typhoid, and in 34 cases such reaction was obtained. As
Typhoid Fever in a District is a sanitary index, the Borough of
Lambeth may be congratulated as far as the year 1902 is concerned.
In London during 1902, there were registered 585 deaths (uncorrected)
out of a total of 3405 cases of Typhoid notified, giving
an uncorrected case-mortality of 17.2 per cent.