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In so far as Typhoid Fever is regarded as a sanitary index of
a district, the statistics for Lambeth Borough during 1904 are, in
that respect, of a most satisfactory character.
In London during 1904 there were registered 296 deaths
(uncorrected) out of a total of 1902 cases of Typhoid notified,
giving an uncorrected case-mortality of 15.6 per cent.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVERS.
During 1904, 4 cases of Continued Fever were notified in the
Borough of Lambeth, but no deaths were registered, as compared
with yearly averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the Parish of
Lambeth of 25.7 and 2.2 respectively.
In London, 28 cases were notified and 6 deaths registered from
Continued Fever during 1904, 'giving a case-mortality of 21.4
per cent. (uncorrected).
No case of Typhus was notified during 1904 in Lambeth
Borough, but 3 cases were notified in London (no deaths).
PUERPERAL FEVER.
During 1904, in the Borough of Lambeth, 8 deaths were
registered from Puerperal Fever (a disease of child-bed), and 15
cases notified, giving a case-mortality of 53.3 per cent.
The annual averages for 10 years (1891-1900) in the Parish
of Lambeth are (1) notified cases, 18.9; and (2) deaths, 11.5;
whilst, in the Borough of Lambeth during 1903, 17 cases were
notified, and 6 deaths registered.
Puerperal Fever is a preventable disease, and is caused
through want of care on the part of the nurse, or the medical
practitioner, attending upon a lying-in woman. 9,059 births
were registered in the Borough of Lambeth during 1904, and in
only 15 cases was Puerperal Fever notified-—a most satisfactory