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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 K. Shewing the number of Certificates for the Notifiable Zymotic Diseases received in the Borough of Lambeth during 1904, and in the old Parish of Lambeth for the ten years 1891-1900.
| Disease. | Parish of Lambeth. | Annual Average of 10 years 1891—1900 (Parish.) | Borough of Lambeth. Notifications received during 1904. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | |||
| Smallpox | 3 | 22 | 99 | 26 | 51 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | — | 22.0 | 23 |
| Cholera | 4 | 26 | 23 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 11.5 | — |
| Diphtheria | 330 | 504 | 789 | 521 | 614 | 652 | 704 | 813 | 1080 | 844 | 715.1 | 317 |
| Membranous Croup | 29 | 47 | 49 | 26 | 23 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 6 | 26.2 | 11 |
| Erysipelas | 258 | 420 | 587 | 315 | 355 | 352 | 325 | 294 | 330 | 23.4 | 347.0 | 257 |
| Scarlet Fever | 858 | 1832 | 2275 | 1198 | 1389 | 1550 | 1375 | 1009 | 1006 | 821 | 1331.3 | 660 |
| Typhus | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 1.1 | — |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 149 | 117 | 160 | 268 | 201 | 162 | 185 | 163 | 219 | 272 | 189.6 | 101 |
| Continued or Relapsing | 33 | 34 | 58 | 48 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 25.7 | 4 |
| Puerperal | 11 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 16 | 19 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 13 | 18.9 | 15 |
| *Plague | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | — |
| Totals | 1676 | 3025 | 4070 | 2433 | 2685 | 2801 | 2663 | 2329 | 2693 | 2209 | 2658.4 | 1382 |
| Average per 1000 of population | 6.1 | 10.9 | 14.5 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 9.5 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 7.1 | 9.04 | 4.5 |
861 cases of Chicken-pox were notified during 1904 within the Borough of Lambeth (556 by Medical Practitioners, and
305 by others), this disease being made compulsorily notifiable on April 8th, and remaining so until November 8th, 1904.
The Health Department has also heard of, and dealt with, the following non-notifiable infectious
diseases:—Measles, 1294; Whooping Cough, 380; Consumption, 659; Cancer, 20; Pneumonia, etc., 39.
* Plague was made notifiable on September 19th, 1900.