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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 1905
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905
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168
II. Accidental Causes 132
Burns and Scalds 11
Drowning 14
Run over 12
Falls, etc. 42
Suffocation 27
Fracture 13
Misadventure 7
Crushed 2
Blood Poisoning4
III. Homicidal Causes 24
Suicide 24
Murder —
Manslaughter —
IV. Open Verdicts 2
Found Drowned 2
Total 336
BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
The Bacteriological Laboratory has proved of great service
during 1005—a very large number of examinations having been
carried out there in connection with ail outbreak of diphtheria
andjpsendo-diphtheria at the Norwood Parochial Schools.
The Laboratory was originally fitted up by the late Vestry
in 1899, and since then (up to the end of 1905) 4,883* examinations
have been made, viz :—Tuberculosis 1,138, Typhoid Fever
568, Diphtheria 3,133, and Others 44.
*1899—389 ; 1900—703 ; 1901—479 ; 1902—466 ; 1903—525 ; 1904—
447 ; 1905—1,874. Total—1,883.