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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 1904

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1904

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Table: DISINFECTION STATISTICS—Continued.

DISINFECTION STATISTICS—Continued.

18901891189218931894189518961897189818991900190119021903Yearly average for 14 yrs. succeeding the Notification Act.1904
No. u cases in which Bedding, etc., has been disinfected.
At Home1792465933431772513682171328162372019194·66
At Chamber139115702540304222062472244721262424299824503040370232532547·23107
No. of Cases in which Bedding, etc., has been destroyed.185275314224119649392744597513462115·153
No. of Articles of Bedding, etc., disinfected.3013674799091151380221351620349214872159727923275282726541029*2695719061·126359
No. of Articles of Bedding, etc, destroyed.33346760567454418617816212632617839591006*587566·9479
Premises disinfected and disinfectants supplied.17221816315758965742714672108715844191469124952212607109847230·612367
Infectious Diseases dealt with. Notifiable†-16768025407024332685280126632329269322092025427315872651·51938
Non-Notifiablef————-—2087144133917021376109422691003-92638

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* Including 26145 and 355 Smallpox articles disinfected and destroyed respectively.
†The Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. came into force on January 1st, 1892, and previous to 1896
practically no attention was paid to disinfection in connection with the non-notifiable infectious diseases.
N.B,—The Statistics for 1901-4 refer to the Borough Council; those for all previous years, to the late Vestry,